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“THE RECORD”
Is the only publication from which can be got a complete view of the benevolent operations of tb
Church. It is edited by the Secretaries of its eight Schemes, the men best able to tell what is doinj
and what they need to enable them to do more. The churches which contribute most liberally to th
support of the Boards are those which put a copy into the hand of each of their members. When fou
or more copies are sent to one address, the price is twenty-five cents a year per copy, which is less tha
cost. It is sent to one person for fifty cents a year. There is no doubt that its general use would be tb
means of building up intelligent givers as well as readers.
OFFICERS AND AGENCIES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
I. THE CLERKS.
Stated, Clerk and Treasurer — Rev. William H. Roberts, D.D., Princeton, N. J.
Permanent Clerk — Rev. William E. Moore, D.D., Columbus, Ohio.
II. THE TRUSTEES.
President — George Junkin, Esq.
Treasurer— James T. Young.
Recording Secretary — Jacob Wilson.
Office— Publication House, No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
III. THE BOARDS.
1. HOME MISSIONS. SUSTENTATION.
Corresponding Secretaries — Rev. Henry Kendall, D.D., and Rev. William C. Roberts, D.D.
Treasurer— Oliver D. Eaton.
Office — Stewart Building, 280 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
2. FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Corresponding Secretaries — Rev. John C. Lowrie, D.D., Rev. Frank F. Ellinwood, D.D., Rev. Arthi
Mitchell, D.D., and Rev. John Gillespie, D.D.
Treasurer — William Rankin.
Office — Presbyterian Mission House, 23 Centre Street, New York, N. Y.
3. EDUCATION.
Corresponding Secretary— Rev. Daniel W. Poor, D.D.
Treasurer— Jacob Wilson.
Office— Publication House, No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
4. PUBLICATION.
Corresponding and Editorial Secretary — Rev. John W. Dulles, D.D.
Secretary of Sabbath-school Work— Rev. James A. Worden, D.D.
Treasurer — Samuel D. Powel.
Business Superintendent— J ohn A. Black.
Publication House— No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
5. CHURCH ERECTION.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. Erskine N. White, D.D.
Corresponding Secretary's Assistant. — Rev. John Irwin.
Treasurer— Adam Campbell.
Office — Presbyterian Mission House, No. 23 Centre Street, New York, N. Y.
6. MINISTERIAL RELIEF.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. William C. Cattell, D.D.
Recording Secretary and Treasurer — Rev. William W. Heberton.
Office — Publication House, No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
7. FREEDMEN.
Corresponding Secretary— Rev . R. H. Allen, D.D.
Treasurer— Rev. James Allison, D.D., P. O. Box 1024.
Office— No. 116 Market Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
8. BOARD OF AID FOR COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. Hervey D. Ganse, D.D.
Treasurer — Charles M. Charnley, 241 S. Water Street.
Office — Room 22 McCormick Block, No. 29 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111.
PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE.
Chairman— Rev. Charles S. Pomeroy, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio.
Secretary — Dan P. Eells, Cleveland, Ohio.
Acting Secretary — Rev. Anson Smyth, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio.
PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON TEMPERANCE.
Chairman.— kev. E. E. Swift, D.D., Allegheny, Pa.
Corresponding Secretary— Rev. N. B. C. Comingo, P. O. Box 346, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Treasurer— Rev. James Allison, D.D., No. 616 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
It is recommended that a Church Contribution be made on the first Lord’s Day of eight months of t
year, annually, as follows : _ , _ J
1. Foreign Missions, January. 2. Sustentation, March. 3. Publication, May. 4. Church Erectu
July. 5. Ministerial Relief, September. 6. Education, October. 7. Freedmen, December. 8. Aid :
Colleges and Academies, February.
N. B.— Presbyterian Historical Society.— Rev. D. K. Turner, Corresponding Secretary and Lib
rian , 1229 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
THE PRESBYTERIAN
MONTHLY RECORD.
XXXVII. PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST, 1886. No. 8.
BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS.
The General Assembly of 1871 directed ci That as the rate of expenditure is measur-
ably uniform throughout the year, no one month be designated for taking up collec-
tions for Home Missions ; but that each church designate for itself the month that
will bring most to the treasury of the Board, and in no case fail of an annual contri-
bution.” See Minutes 1871, page 575.
THE BOARD’S DEBT AND SABBATH-SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS.
Press of duty and want of time prevented our publishing extensively
the recommendation of the last Assembly to take up a collection on the
4th of July to pay our debt. We are not sure that our communications
to the ministers and Sabbath-school superintendents reached their desti-
j nation in time to arrange for it. In addition to this, the children’s day,
a little before the 4th, and the absence from home of many of our city
; children, made it either impracticable or unwise in many places to take
up a collection on that day. Notwithstanding the difficulties thus hinted
at, many schools obeyed the injunction of the Assembly, and poured
their precious rills into our treasury. It is too early, at the writ-
ing of this article, to report the result. We are hopeful about it, and
careful to keep a separate account of all the moneys sent us for this
purpose, that we may report it in due time.
If it was impracticable for any schools to take up a collection on the
4th as was recommended, it is not too late yet. The reasons for doing it
remain as strong after our national day of independence as they were
before it. One is that the Board of Home Missions organizes a Sab-
| bath-school for nearly every day in the year. It may be truthfully
said by the pastor or superintendent to the scholars every Sabbath
morning , “ Since we met here last week our Home Board has organized
seven new schools in some destitute portion of our land.” What a
reason for appealing to the children for aid to carry on our work !
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To the extent they supply us with the funds, they really plant the
schools here and there to cause the wilderness to blossom as the rose.
Let those schools which failed to give anything on the 4th of July
contribute now toward extinguishing our $48,000 debt. The thought to
me is a very pleasant one that the Sabbath-schools, or the children, are
putting their shoulders to the wheels and carrying a substantial part of
our heavy load of debt. Think of the sight ! The Sabbath-schools
pushing forward the great work of home evangelization.
Great efforts are being made to interest the children of the Sabbath-
schools. I know of no surer way of doing it than by getting them to do
and to give something. There is a large amount of indifference among all
classes and ages about the salvation of our fellow men who are even our
own neighbors. Miss Mary L. Cort, missionary in Siam, writes thus
on this subject :
While in Colorado I visited many of the towns and churches in the
state, and spoke of foreign mission work among the heathen of Asia.
But I am astonished to find hundreds of Christian Americans living side
by side with the Mexicans, meeting them every day in the streets and
shops of those western cities, and yet utterly indifferent to their condi-
tion, and not doing one thing to enlighten them. Some even take mis-
sionary magazines, and read with interest of the work in other places,
while in the very next street to them may be a mission church or school
supported by the Home Board which they have never visited.
There will always be literal pagans at our own doors unless home
Christians learn to do their duty. You may not now know the Mex-
icans or Indians who live near you, but God will ask you about them
some day ! What then ?
FLORIDA,
On the 6th of June the Rev. A. W. Sproull, Superintendent of
Home Missions for Florida, organized the Westminster Presbyterian
Church of Higley, with thirteen members, George W. Webb, late of
Minneapolis, Minn., and Richard C. Annin, of Pluckamin, N. J., being
elected, ordained and installed elders. Three years ago the place where
Higley now stands was an untrodden wilderness, not a tree having been
cut. Mr. Webb and his estimable Christian wife entered here as
pioneers, and in their humble home determined to commence and estab-
lish a Christian community. One year after that a town site was
selected, and fifteen hundred acres were laid out in dwelling and grove
lots, varying from one and one-quarter to ten acres. To these were
added, one year ago, fifteen hundred acres more. Up to the present
time three hundred and fifty acres have been cleared, and three hundred
acres planted in orange groves, most of which are owned and cared for by
the present occupants. The church has been organized under favorable
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circumstances, and while the number of members is few, they are intel-
ligent and resolute. Mr. Webb conducts a large Bible-class of adults,
which manifests great interest in the study of the Scripture lessons.
An interesting weekly prayer-meeting is also held. The church is
called “ Westminster,” after that in which the General Assembly so
lately met, and of which Mr. Webb and his wife were active members.
ONLY TWELVE PER CENT. ADDITIONAL.
The last Assembly recommended to the churches the raising this year
of 5^50,000 for the work of the Home Board. This seems like a large
amount, and yet many of the commissioners advocated making the sum
a round million. We believe in asking what the Church is willing to
give, and not what she may be able to contribute. She can raise
$750,000, for that is only twelve per cent, more than she contributed
last year. Let every pastor and session see that this additional sum is
raised. It is the only way to meet the demands of our land.
HOME MISSION APPOINTMENTS, MAY, 1886.
Rev. J. Montgomery, Lonsdale 1st, R. I.
Rev. D. B. McLeod, Quincy 1st, Mass.
Rev. D. W. Cameron, Reading 1st, “
Rev. R. H. Wilkinson, Hunter, N. Y
Rev. J. Odell, Mapleton, “
Rev. E. C. Hull, Arkport, “
Rev. H. H. Lipes, Brasher Falls, “
Rev. W. C. Brown, Troy Liberty Street, N. J.
Rev. W. D. Robeson, Princeton Wither-
spoon Street, “
Rev. B. P. Johnson, Hopewell, “
Rev. S. R. Queen, Titusville, “
Rev. C. A. Oliver, Tuckahoe, “
Rev. P. C. Headley, Brainerd, “
Rev. F. S. Curtis, Green Creek and Holly Beach, “
Rev. W. H. Johns, Jericho, “
Rev. D. M. Miller, Conemaugh, Pa.
Rev. J. F. Diener, Dickenson, *•
Rev. T. D. Elder, Unionville and Toughkenamon, “
Rev. A. Marcellus, Atglen and Christiana, “
Rev. T. S. Negley, Ridgway, “
Rev. A. B. Fields, Brockwayville and Elkton, “
Rev. G. W. Zahniser, Venango and Salem, “
Rev. G. Chapell, Little Valley, “
Rev. George Elliott, Robertsdale, “
Rev. R. H. Craig, Hawley, “
Rev. H. H. Henry, Shickshinny, “
Rev. J. H. Elliott, Arch bald, “
Rev. J. M. Salmon, Lockridge Memorial, “
Rev. W. R. Templeton, Reading Washington St., “
Rev. F. P. Dalrymple, Shawnee, “
Rev. J. F. Scott, Slatington, “
Rev. W. S. Thompson, Ann Carmichael, “
Rev. J. B. Krewson, Forestville, “
Rev. A. W. Long, Lower Merion, “
Rev. J. Peacock, Holmesburg, “
Rev. M. L. Hofford, Morrisville, “
Rev. H. G. Gleiser, Carversville and Plum-
steadville, “
Rev. George Rogers, Mansfield, “
Rev. A. C. Heaton, Lewes, Del.
Rev. F. M. Todd, Manassas and Prince Will-
iam Co., Va.
Rev. C. M. Livingston, Seneca and Sorrento, Fla.
Rev. Leo Dionne, French, Ohio.
Rev. J. A. Seymour, Parma, “
Rev. T. J. McClelland, New Paris and Ebeuezer, “
Rev. B. J. Brown, Bluffton, “
Rev. J. S. Axtell, Celina, “
Rev. R. H. Nye, St. Mary’s, Ohio.
Rev. M. Koehler, Toledo Ger.,
Rev. J. Kromer, Salem Ger., “
Rev. F. C. Hood, Newcastle, Ind.
Rev. A. L. Knox, Rankin, lil.
Rev. P. S. Van Nest, Grand Tower, “
Rev. S. Allen, Braidwood, “
Rev. G. Snyder, Chicago Belden Ave., “
Rev. P. Bondreau, St. Anne 2d, “
Rev. H. S. Jordan, Taylorville, “
Rev. F. Lippe, Burton Memorial, “
Rev. S. H. Stevenson, Perry, “
Rev. E. A. Elfield, Salem Ger,, “
Rev. D. T. McAuley, Appanoose, “
Rev. E. S. McMichael, Springfield 3d, “
Rev. J. Redpath, Boyne Falls, Boyne City and
Elmira, Mich.
Rev. Albert Robinson, Gladwin 1st and 2d, “
Rev. M. M. Cooper, Ladora, Iowa.
Rev. W. A. Ward, Big River and Red Wing, Wis.
Rev. J. A. Ringold, Lancaster 1st Ger., “
Rev. S. W. Chidester, Milwaukee Grace, “
Rev. J. Post, Milwaukee Perseverance, * *
Rev. William Pelan, Wells, Minn.
Rev. S. A. Jamieson, Tracy, “
Rev. J. S. Sherrill, Litchfield and Spring Grove, “
Rev. D. E. Wells, Minneapolis Franklin Ave., “
Rev. J. A. Greene, Miller, Dak.
Rev. C. Bonekemper, Germans at Lesterville
and vicinity, “
Rev. J. W. Little, Columbus, Neb.
Rev. F. W. Fisher, Macon, Mo.
Rev. C. F. Wilson, Glasgow, “
Rev. D. McRuer, New Hampton and Martinsville, “
Rev. F. M. Symmes, Florence, Kans.
Rev. W. N. McHarg, Blue Rapids, “
Rev. J. H. Marshall, Kingman, “
Rev. H. McMeekin, Scandia and Scotch Plains, “
Rev. W. H. Honnell, Herington, Union and
Station, “
Rev. F. E. Thompson,. Cawker City and Glen Elder, “
Rev. S. Ward, Wolf Creek, “
Rev. B. F. McMillan, Blue Stem, Bashan and
Station, “
Rev. A. Steep, Bellville, “
Rev. V. F. Romero, Taos, N. Mex.
Rev. C. H. Cook, Pina Agency, “
Rev. M. Phillips, Mora, “
Rev. J. M. Shields, Jemes Springs, “
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Rev. A. A. Maes, Ocate, N. Mex.
Rev. J. M. Martinez, Rinconnes, “
Rev. T. M. Marshall, Santa Cruz and vicinity, “
Rev. G. K. Scott, Georgetown, Texas.
Rev. J. R. Bowman, Gainesville, “
Rev. H. F. Albright, Throckmorton and Seymour, “
Rev. J. Anderson, Bowie, Adora and St. Joe, “
Rev. W. H. Niles, Jacksboro’ and New Cambria, “
Rev. G. Yan Eman, Vernon and Stations, “
Rev. S. L. Gillespie, Corinne, Box Elder,
Willard and Stations, Utah.
Rev. J. D. Beard, Vacaville, Cal.
Rev. J. B. Rideout, Clear Lake 1st and 2d, “
Rev. P. L. Carden, Dixon and Westminster, “
Rev. W. H. Darden, Petaluma, “
Rev. C. H. Crawford, Point Arena, “
Rev. E. R. Mills, Ojai and Santa Paula, “
Rev. J. L. Woods, Carson City, “
Rev. C. R. Shields, Joseph, Lostine, Shiloh
and Walkoa Valley, Oregon.
Rev. J. C. Willert, Summerville and La Grande, “
Rev. A. J. Canney, Arlington, “
Rev. J. S. Bingham, Baker City, “
Rev. J. E. Day, Clatsop Plains and Knappa, “
Rev. G. Ross, Tualatin Plains, “
Rev. R. Robe, Crawfordsville and Brownsville, “
Rev. D. 0. Ghormley, E. Portland 1st, “
Rev. R. J. Laughlin, Portland St. John’s, “
ev. W. A. Smick, Roseburg, “
Rev. P. C. Stanup, Puyallup Indians, “
Rev. G. F. Whitworth, White River and Renton, “
Rev. R. B. Dilworth, Vashon and Henderson, “
Rev. S. S. Caldwell, Montesano, “
Rev. T. G. Watson, Spokane Falls, Wash. Ter.
Rev. S. Hall Young, Fort Wrangel, Alaska.
HOME MISSION APPOINTMENTS FOR JUNE, 1886.
Rev. D. J. Many, Jr., Esperance, N. Y.
Rev. J. L. Harrington, Sand Lake, “
Rev. J. R. Crosser, Portland 1st, Me.
Rev. G. N. Earner, Manchester, N. H.
Rev. L. Eulner, East Williamsburg Ger., N. Y.
Rev. W. H. Dickerson, Brooklyn Siloam, “
Rev. C. H. Park, Circleville, “
Rev. A. S. Gardiner, Milford, “
Rev. F. R. Wade, Heuvelton, “
Rev. A. Bixby, Hornby, “
Rev. J. G. Rodger, New Haven, Conn.
Rev. A. Potts, Long Branch, N. J.
Rev. W. P. Fulton, Delanco, “
Rev. H. C. Schliiter, Pleasant Valley Ger., “
Rev. J. H. Wolff, Newark 3d Ger., “
Rev. E. Snyder, Stockton, “
Rev. J. Nelson, Wantage 1st, “
Rev. S. N. Hutchison, Oxford 1st, “
Rev. A. S. Vaughn, Richland, “
Rev. J. H. Fleming, Robert Kennedy Memorial, Pa.
Rev. D. Kennedy, St. Mary’s Shiloh, “
Rev. J. R. Reardon, Linden and Holland Run, “
Rev. C. H. Scliwarzback, Carmel Ger., “
Rev. A. T. Fox, Stewartstown, “
Rev. J. H. Baird, Gnatty Creek, W. Va.
Rev. A. Virtue, Elizabeth, Bethel and Hughes
River, “
Rev. R. Morgan, Ravenswood & Pleasant Flats, “
Rev. J. W. Jones, Abbott Chapel, Md.
Rev. W. M. Hargrave, Baltimore Knox, “
Rev. S. M. Perry, Ashland, “
Rev. J. F. Jennison, Paradise, “
Rev. C. Hedges, Baltimore Grace, “
Rev. T. S. Dewing, Church Hill, “
Rev. C. E. Eckels, Blackwater, Del.
Rev. J. M. Nourse, Alexandria 1st, Va.
Rev. R. F. Caldwell, Sharpsburg, Ky.
Rev. J. N. Ervin, Dayton 1st, “
Rev. A. J. Thomson, Marion and Kuttawa, “
Rev. M. May, Hopkinsville aud S. Carrollton, “
Rev. R. H. Horton, Knox, Clay, Bell and Harlan
counties, “
Rev. J. L. McKee, Clay and Knox counties, “
Rev. D. L. Lander, Chattanooga Park Place, Teun.
Rev. D. M. Wilson, Spring City and Piney Falls, “
Rev. J. Silsby, Grassy Cove, “
Rev. N. F. Tuck, New Prospect, “
Rev. J. H. Cooper, Unita and Cloyd’s Creek, “
Rev. E. Vincent, Nelsonville, Ohio.
Rev. T. J. Cellar, Patterson and Mt. Blanchard, “
Rev. A. J. Clark, Huntsville, “
Rev. A. Swaney, D.D., Toronto,
Rev. W. B. Scarborough, Otsego, “
Rev. W. P. Koutz, Kirklin, Ind.
Rev. J. Williamson, New Pisgah,
Rev. G. Booth, Indianapolis 6th, “
Rev. J. W. Skinner, Terre Haute Moffatt St., “
Rev. W. A. Ervin, Aurora,
Rev. E. E. Clarke, Cambridge City, “
Rev. F. L. Forbes, Monticello, III.
Rev. R. C. Galbraith. Golconda, “
Rev. S. Conybeare, Gardner,
Rev. R. D. Scott, Lake 1st, 111.
Rev. E. R. Davis, Presbyterial Missionary, “
Rev. B. E. P. Prugb, Pilot, “
Rev. G. W. Fisher, New Hope, Casey & Greenup, “
Rev. R. Carson, Astoria, “
Rev. J. Moore, Kewanee and Altona, “
Rev. W. N. Steele, Winchester and Murray ville, “
Rev. J. H. Phelps, Reading, Mich.
Rev. R. J. L. Matthews, Spring Lake,
Rev. W. S. Taylor, Erie 1st, “
Rev. L. M. Belden, Raisin, “
Rev. J. H. Fleming, Tawas and station, “
Rev. L. Littell, Morrice, “
Rev. L. Richter. Phillips, Wis.
Rev. J. M. Pryse, North Bend and vicinity, “
Rev. N. Sulzer, Marion, “
Rev. G. Runciman, Columbus, “
Rev. B. H. Idsinga, Milwaukee Holland, “
Rev. C. Loudon, Okobojo and vicinity, Dak.
Rev. Thomas Bayne, Conova Union, “
Rev. F. W. Moore, Hope Chapel & Union Centre,
Rev. E. P. Foresman, Hillsboro’ and Kelso, “
Rev. Q. L. Young, Hunter and Blanchard, “
Rev. R. W. Ely, La Moure and Grand Rapids, “
Rev. J. A. Brown, Arvilla, “
Rev. J. Scott, Park and Walhalla, “
Rev. W. H. Hunter, Minto Knox, “
Rev. J. Lanman, Minneapolis Bethlehem, Minn.
Rev. E. V. Campbell, St. Cloud,
Rev. F. E. McGillivray, Claremont and Ripley, “
Rev. J. J. Ward, Kasson, “
Rev. M. E. Todd, Lyons, Iowa.
Rev. W. T. Bar tie, Morning Star, “
Rev. R. C. Rowley, Brooks and Nodaway, “
Rev. R. M. Coulter, Woodbine, “
Rev. W. M. Evans, Manchester,
Rev. S. C. Head, Pomeroy and Rolfe, “
Rev. W. A. Smith, Moingona, “
Rev. C. M. Lombard, Montrose, “
Rev. D. T. Campbell, Martinsburg, “
Rev. N. C. Green, Conrad, “
Rev. E. M. Snook, Superior, Neb.
Rev. J. L. Lower, Union and Verona, “
Rev. E. Benson, Goshen, “
Rev. L. D. Wells, Humboldt 1st, “
Rev. W. J. Bollman, Osceola and Shelby, “
Rev. W. B. McElwee, Eureka Springs, Ark.
Rev. M. G. Gorin, Louisiana 1st, Mo.
Rev. J. Hawkes, Avalon and Dawn,
Rev. F. Auf der Heide, St. Louis 2d Ger.,
Rev. B. Mollenbeck, Salem Ger.,
Rev. W. J. Lee, St. Louis McCausland Ave.,
Rev. J. H. Shields, Cote Brilliante,
Rev. S. M. Ware, Ferguson,
Rev. W. H. Reid, Maxon, Plymouth and Mel-
vern, Kan.
Rev. J. N. Rankin, Pot win and Brainerd, “
Rev. R. Arthur, Parkerville, Wilsey and Mor-
ris county 1st, “
Rev. E. J. Brown, Harmony,
Rev. M. Williams, May ville, Argonia, State
Valley and Silver Creek, “
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Rev. J. Edwards, Wheel ock, Ind. Ter.
Rev. W. L. Miller, Tahlequah, “
Rev. D. Kingery, Garden City 1st, Kan.
Rev. J. C. McElroy, Medicine Lodge, “
Rev. W. F. Millikan, Carlyle, “
Rev. S. G. Fisher, Coffeyville, “
Rev. A. M. Mann, Louisburg, “
Rev. V. M. King, Moran and Fairview, “
Rev. J. B. Welty, Pleasanton and Prescott, “
Rev. T. M. Walker, Elk City, “
Rev. A. S. Sharpless, Bethel and Mound Yalley, “
Rev. J. D. Todd, Altamont, “
Rev. J. M. Amlong, Cherokee and Monument, “
Rev. H. H. Brownlee, Erie and Walnut, “
Rev. J. Gerrish, D.D., Hays City, “
Rev. J. A. Grilles, Hoxie and Sheridan county, “
Rev. J. Wilson, Oberlin, “
Rev. R. Gray, South Centre, Prairie View and
Beaver Valley, “
Rev. A. Glendenning, Glasco and Delphos, “
Rev. W. T. Scott, Bennington, “
Rev. W. 31. Howell, Rossville, Silver Lake and
Ridge, “
Rev. W. H. Pumphrey, Armourdale, Kan.
Rev. R. C. McKinney, Adrian and vicinity, “
Rev. La Theo lobe. High Prairie & fairmount, “
Rev. G. W. Barr, Rawlins, Wyoming.
Rev. J. N. Mills, Idaho Springs, Col.
Rev. J. McLean, Salida, “
Rev. H. F. Sewell, Silver Cliff, “
Rev. P. D. Stoops, Parowan, Utah.
Rev. R. P. Boyd, Bear Lake county, Idaho.
Rev. A. J. Compton, Willows St. John’s, Cal.
Rev. H. H. Dobbins, West Berkeley, “
Rev. G. A. G. Hutchinson, Olivet and Memorial, “
Rev. W. M. Hersman, San Luis Obispo, “
Rev. J. F. Cherry, Portuguese Missionary, “
Rev. I. N. Waterman, Gilroy and Hollister, “
Rev. J. M. Morrison, Weston and stations, Oregon.
Rev. E. R. Prichard, Albany, “
Rev. W. L. Boyd, Sellwood and S. Portland, “
Rev. E. N. Condit, Pleasant Grove, Octorara
and Marion, "
Rev. I. Wheelis, Teanaway, Olivet and vicin-
ity, Wash.
Rev. J. L. Gould, Hydah Mission, Alaska.
RECEIPTS FOR HOME MISSIONS IN JUNE, 1886.
Atlantic. — Atlantic — Ebenezer, 2; Goodwill, 5.
7 00
Baltimore. — Baltimore — Baltimore 2d, Earnest
Workers’ Mission Band, 10 ; Brown Memorial, 64 55 ;
Franklinville, 3. New Castle — Port Deposit, 8 65 ;
Wilmington Hanover St. sab-sch., Children’s Day,
2101; Olivet sab-sch., 10. Washington City — Wash-
ington Eastern, 1 32. 118 53
Colorado. — Boulder — Fairview, 1 52; Laramie
(sab-sch., 425, Woman’s Auxiliary Missionary Society,
5 75), 22; Valmont, 1 23. Denver — Idaho Springs,
Freeland sab-sch., 2 05; Littleton, 5. Pueblo —
Silver Cliff, 12 25. Santa F6— Las Cruces Spanish, 5.
49 05
Columbia. — Idaho — Baker City, 12 ; Joseph, 5 ;
Lostine, 3. Oregon— Pleasant Grove, 36 25 ; Octorara,
5 ; Sellwood and Willsburg, 20 50 ; Marion, 5 75.
Puget Sound — Klikitat 2d, 4 75; Olympia, 5 25 ; Sta-
tions, 7 25. 104 75
Dakota. — Aberdeen — Le Beau, 5; La Grace, 5;
3Iound City, 5. Central Dakota — Pierre, Ladies,
15 75. Southern Dakota — Bridgewater (Ladies, 2 50),
5; Canistoga, 3; 3Iitchell (sab-sch., 1 62), 4 62;
White Lake, 3 ; Pleasant Prairie, 2. 48 37
Illinois. — Cairo — Richview sab-sch., 4. Mattoon —
Newton, 5 ; Tuscola (J. R. Evans, 5), 41 35. Rock
River — Centre, 14; Peniel sab-sch., 5. Schuyler —
Wythe, 8. Springfield — Pisgah, 5 67; Unity, 2 24;
Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife, 3 86. 89 12
Indiana. — Indianapolis — Hopewell sab-sch., 17 04.
JUuncie — Peru, 17 78. Vincennes — Evansville Grace
sab-sch., 17 03. White Water — Liberty, 12; Rising
Sun, 5. 68 85
Iowa. — Des Moines — Dallas Centre, 5 ; Des 3Ioines
W. M. S., 30; Grimes, 5. Dubuque — Lansing Ger., 7.
Iowa — Birmingham sab-sch., 6. Waterloo — Ackley,
200. 253 00
Kansas. — Emporia — Oxford, 2 75; Sedan, 8; Wau-
neta, 9. Lamed — Canton, 4 20 ; Galva, 4 60. Neosho
— Harrison, 1 ; Thayer, 6. Osborne — Rose Valley, 5.
Solomon — Bennington, 10. 50 55
Kentucky. — Transylvania — Perry ville, 5 00
3Iichigan. — Detroit — Detroit 3Iemorial (sab-sch.,
50), 87 98. Grand Rapids — Cadillac sab-sch., 20; Old
Wing, 1; Omena, 1. Saginaw — Lafayette 2d, 125;
Mount Pleasant, 5 ; Rev. J. B. Jewell, 5. 121 23
Minnesota.— Red River — Angus, 5. St. Paul —
Minneapolis Bethlehem, 8 54; Westminster, 158.
171 54
31issouri. — Osage — Jefferson City, 62 25. Ozark—
Belleview, 3 ; Lehigh, 4. Platte — Rev. W. Reed, 5.
St. Louis — De Soto, 3. 77 25
Nebraska. — Hastings — Marquette, 3. Kearney —
Central City, 2 80; Mrs. M. S. Lyman, 167. Nebraska
City — Burchard, 5 55; Firth, 5 14; Tecumseh, 3;
Cash, 10. Niobrara — Wayne, James House, 10.
Omaha— Garrison, 2 83; Lyons, 6. 215 32
New Jersey.— Elizabeth— Third Ave. Chapel sab-
6ch.,4; Roselle (sab-sch., 27 42), 74 42; Westfield
sab-sch., 25. Jersey City — Claremont, 27 41; Pater-
son Broadway Ger. sab-sch., 4 52; Rutherford 1st,
55 28. Monmouth — Farmingdale, 20. Morris and
Orange— Madison, 23 25 ; Morristown 1st, 181 41 ;
South St., 864 43 ; South Orange, 53 85. Newark—
Bloomfield Ger., 6 ; Newark 2d, 45 84. New Bruns-
wick— Dutch Neck, 50. Newton — Belvidere 1st, 40 ;
Danville, 17 ; Oxford 1st, George Sanson, 5. West
Jersey — Braiuerd, 12 50. 1509 91
New York. — Boston — South Ryegate, 4. Brooklyn
— Brooklyn 1st, 100; 2d, 227 73; Lafayette Ave. (M.
C. C., 37 55, sab-sch. Miss’y Assoc'n, 175), 212 65;
Edgewater 1st sab-sch., 25. Cayuga — Auburn 2d,
27 19 ; Westminster, 5 35 ; Cayuga sab-sch., 7 50.
Chemung — Elmira 1st, H. D. Treadwell, 10. Geneva
— Manchester sab-sch., 6 50. Hudson — Hampton-
burg, 33. Long Island — Franklinville, 14: South-
old, 60. Nassau — Huntingdon 1st, 75; “A thank
offering,” 50. New York — Fifth Ave., Mrs. R. L.
Stuart, 3000; First @, 1000; University Place @,
100; Immanuel sab-sch. Miss’y Ass’n, 75. North
River — Cornwall, 29 11 ; Pleasant Valley, 35. Otsego
— Laurens, 5. Rochester — Brockport sab-sch., 3 44;
Livonia, 14 16 ; Rochester Brick, 350. St. Lawrence
— Ox Bow, 48. Syracuse — Syracuse 1st, 39 72. Troy
— Cambridge, 15; Cohoes, 15; Woodside sab-sch.,
103 30 ; Waterford, 14 20. Utica — Rome, 23 43. West-
chester— West Farms, 10. 5738 18
North Dakota. — Fargo — Brookston, thank offer-
ing, 10 25. Pembina— Bottineau, 5 ; Bathgate, 6 25 ;
Hamilton, 2. 23 50
Ohio. — Belief ontaine — Bellefontaine, 8 67. Chilli-
cothe — Wilmington sab-sch., 10. Cincinnati — Cincin-
nati Mt. Auburn sab-sch., 94 60; Westminster, 125.
Cleveland — Rome, 3. Columbus — Columbus 2d, 190 26.
Dayton — Osborn, 1. Huron — TiflSn, 4 68. Mahoning
— Clarkson, 1; Youngstown 1st, 47 83. Portsmouth
— Buena Vista Ger., 2; Portsmouth 1st Ger., 6. St.
Clairsville — Powhatan, 5. Zanesville — Otsego, 1 43.
500 47
Pacific. — Benicia — Davisville, 25 05. Los Angeles —
Orange, 33. Sacramento — Oakdale, 24 25. San Fran-
cisco— Alameda sab-sch., 3 10; San Francisco Larkin
St. sab-sch., 6. San Jos6 — Cambria, 10; Cayucos, 10;
Watsonville, 10. 121 40
Pennsylvania. — Butler — Centreville, 17 50; North
Liberty, 8 96; North Washington, 10; Scrub Grass,
27. Carlisle— McConnellsburg, 4 30; Wells Valley,
3 50. Chester — Bryn Mawr, 88 84. Erie — East
Greene, 5; Greenfield, 4; Mt. Pleasant, 5 16; Sandy
Lake, 5 20 ; Stoneboro’, 7 31 ; Sugar Creek, 7 ; Ve-
nango, 5. Huntingdon — Hollidaysburg (sab-sch.,
2 56), 51 83 ; Lower Tuscarora, 40. Kittanning —
Rural Valley, 13. Lackawanna — Kingston Larksville
sab-sch., 4; Langclyflfe, 60; Montrose, 60; Wilkes-
. barre 1st, 201. Northumberland — Lycoming Centre,
10; Milton, 93 85; Williamsport 1st, 40. Philadel-
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[August,
phia — Philadelphia 9th, 54 64; Tabernacle, Miss S.
Borden, 4; Tabor, 22; Westminster, 38. Philadel-
phia North — Bridesburg, 25. Pittsburgh — Hebron,
47 20; Pittsburgh 2d, 70 81; East Liberty, 76; Shady
Side, 117 20. Shenango — Newport, 12; Slippery Rock,
20. Washington — Upper Buffalo sab-sch. primary
class, 10 10. Wellsboro' — Allegheny, 2. 1267 80
Utah. — Montana — Hamilton, 4 50; Timberline, 4;
White Sulphur Springs, 1 35. Utah— Evanston, 8 50 ;
Ogden 1st sab-sch., Children’s Day, 2 15. 20 50
Wisconsin. — Chippewa — Hudson, 44 43. Lake Su-
perior— Ishpeming, 31. Madison — Cottage Grove, 2.
Winnebago — Fond du Lac, Empire Dist. (sab-sch., 10),
17 50 ; Robinsonville, 1 61. 96 54
Woman’s Executive Committee H. M.... 5,000 00
Total received from churches, June,
1886 $15,657 86
LEGACIES.
Legacy of Mrs. Kate E. Elder, dec’d, late
of Chicago, III., 2000; John Gordon,
dec’d, late of Urbana, O., a balance, 1700;
Rev. William Sterling, dec’d, late of Wil-
liamsport, Pa., 2907 43 6,607 43
MISCELLANEOUS.
A friend, Gouverneui’, N. Y., 5 ; “Anon.,”
5; “G. A.,” Hopkinton, Iowa, 10; Miss
Jane L. Cathcart, York, Pa., 20; William
Howard, Esq.. Cleveland, O., 9 ; W. S. S.,
15; Mrs. M. P. Kimball, Pennsboro’, W.
Va., 10; “C., N. Y.,” 9; A friend of home
missions, 250; Rev. H. A. Dodge, Evans-
ville, Ind., 5; Miss Mary Yance, Holli-
daysburg, Pa., 10 ; Mrs. S. A. Hamilton,
East Springfield, O., 5; “Tithings,” 5;
“ A thank-offering,” 8 ; “ A friend,” 7 50;
G. A. Tallmadge, Orland, Dak., 5; “ W.
G.,” Philadelphia, Pa., 3; Northfield
{Mass.) Seminary Missionary Society, 30;
“J. S. S.,” New York, 5; Interest on
Permanent Fund, 450 75 ; John C. Green
Fund, 371 25 ; Garland Trust, 22 50 1,261 00
Total received for Home Missions June,
1886 $18,526 29
Total received from April 1, 1886 74,901 09
O. D. Eaton, Treasurer ,
P. O. Box 1938, 280 Broadway, N. Y.
RECEIPTS FOR THE DEBT, JUNE, 1886.
Baltimore. — Washington City — Gurley Chapel,
Youths’ Miss. Soc., 100 00
Columbia. — Oregon — Pleasant Grove, 10 25
Illinois. — Mattoon — Assumption sab-sch., Chil-
dren’s Day, 1 85
Indiana. — Craw/ordsville — Ladoga sab-sch., Chil-
dren’s Day, 5 25. White Water — Rev. H. F. Olmstead,
2. 7 25
Iowa. — Des Moines — Dallas Centre, 1 25; Grimes,
1 25. 2 50
Kansas. — Lamed — Burton sab-sch., Children’s Day,
2 02. Topeka— Oskaloosa sab-sch., Children’s Day, 2.
4 02
Michigan. — Kalamazoo — Decatur sab-sch., 10 58
Minnesota. — Mankato — St. James, 2 00
Nebraska. — Kearney — Fullerton sab-sch., Chil-
dren’s Day, 4 45. Niobrara — Lambert sab-sch., 4.
8 45
New Jersey. — Monmouth — Tuckerton sab-sch.,
Children’s Day, 2 35. Morris and Orange — Morris-
town 1st, Children’s Miss. Soc., 100. 102 35
New York. — Hudson — Monroe 1st, 100. St. Law-
rence— Carthage W. M. S., 5. 105 00
Pennsylvania. — Philadelphia North — Jenkintown
Grace sab-sch., Children’s Day, 8 10. Westminster —
Stewartstown sab-sch., Children’s Day, 18. 26 10
Total receipts from churches $380 35
miscellaneous.
Mrs. A. W. Metcalf, Fly Creek, N. Y., 10;
“W.T. F.,”12; Rev. E. T. Ingle, 8 ; G.
A. Tallmadge, Orland, Dak., 4; Miss
Walker, 10 44 00
Total received for Debt, June, 1886.... $424 35
O. D. Eaton, Treasurer ,
P. O. Box 1938, 280 Broadway, N. Y.
RECEIPTS FOR SUSTENTATI0N IN JUNE, 1886.
Colorado. — Boulder — Yalmont, 04
Columbia. — Puget Sound — Olympia, 5 00
Illinois. — Springfield — Pisgah, 95 cts.; Unity, 38
cts.; Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife, 65 cts. 1 98
Indiana. — Muncie — Peru, 6 27. White Water —
Liberty, 2; College Corner, 1 ; Rising Sun, 2. 11 27
Kansas. — Fmporia — Emporia 1st, 9 07 ; Winfield,
17 26. 26 33
Michigan. — Detroit — Detroit Memorial, 126. Grand
Rapids — Grand Rapids Westminster, 22 26. 23 52
Minnesota.— St. Paul — Minneapolis Bethlehem,
28 cts.; St. Paul East, 5. 5 28
Missouri.— Osage — Warrensburg, 4. Platte —
Parkville, 2. 6 00
New Jersey. — Jersey City — Tenafly, 5 ; Rutherford
1st, 17 50. Morris and Orange— Madison, 78 cts.
Newark — Newark Central, 50. New Brunswick—
Trenton 1st, 132. 205 28
New York. — Long Island — Southold, 10. Nassau
—“A thank offering,” 10. New York — Fourth Ave.,
167 92. North River— Marlboro’, 16. St. Lawrence—
Cape Vincent, 2. Troy — Cambridge, 5 ; Waterford,
7 09. Utica— Rome 1st, 14 75; Camden 1st, 1.
Westchester — West Farms, 2. 235 76
North Dakota. — Pembina — Bathgate, 2; Hamil-
ton, 1. 3 00
Ohio.— Cincinnati — Cincinnati Westminster, 20.
Cleveland— Rome, 10 cts. Steubenville— Two Ridges,
6. Zanesville— Mt. Vernon, 12 97. 39 07
Pennsylvania. — Chester — West Chester 1st, 48 63.
Erie. — Warren, 5; Hadley, 2 14. Northumberland—
Williamsport 2d sab-sch., 9 65. Philadelphia — Phila-
delphia 1st,. 39 36. Philadelphia Central — Kensing-
ton, 16 43; West Arch St., 90 89; Olivet, 20 69;
Memorial, 33; Temple, 23. Pittsburg h— Shady Side,
29 30 ; East Liberty, 14 ; Hebron, 12. Washington—
Mt. Prospect, 8 20. West Virginia — Ravenwood, 2.
354 29
Texas. — Austin— Austin 1st, 14 00
Utah. — Montana — Hamilton, 1; Timberline, 1 60.
Utah — Evanston, 2. 4 60
Wisconsin. — Madison — Cottage Grove, 2. Winne-
bago— Fond du Lac, 5 75 ; Stevens Point, 13 15. 20 90
Total from Churches, June, 1886 $956 32
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. M. P. Kimball, Pennsboro’, W. Va 5 00
Total received for Sustentation, June, 1886, $961 32
O. D. EATON, Treasurer
P. O. Box 1938, 280 Broadway, New York.
LETTERSrelatingto Missionary Appointments and
other operations of the Board should be addressed to
the Corresponding Secretaries,
Rev. Henry Kendall, D.D., and
Rev. Wm. C. Roberts, D.D.,
P . 0. Box 1938, 280 Broadway, N. Y.
Letters relating to the pecuniary affairs of the
Board, or containing remittances of money, should be
sent to O. D. Eaton, Esq., Treasurer — same address.
1886.]
EDUCATION.
291
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
WHY NO MORE CANDIDATES FOR THE MINISTRY ?-Continued.
Another obstacle to enlistment for the Christian ministry, which pre-
sents itself to the minds of young men, is found in the “ ways and
means ” often resorted to, and which apparently needs must be resorted
to, in order to obtain a settlement. In all secular professions it is con-
sidered perfectly legitimate to seek for practice and to consult for per-
sonal advantage. But not so is it in the Christian ministry. The very
nature of the service forbids its being sought for or engaged in for selfish
ends. “ We seek not yours, but you,” writes St. Paul, in exemplifica-
tion of the spirit which should rule in it. So too does the nature of the
relations established between a minister and the Church make the busi-
ness of obtaining a pastorate a very delicate matter. These relations
are not those of the market, where goods are offered and a price is asked
at as good a bargain as can be made, and the parties then go their sev-
eral ways until their needs shall bring them together again. Rather the
relations are of a tender and permanent kind. They are formed by ties
of mutual affection and regard and under the most sacred sanctions.
Moreover, in forming them the Church by right takes the initiative. It
is its province to give the call. All that the candidate can do is to secure,
by personal application or on the recommendation of another, the oppor-
tunity for exhibiting himself before a congregation, and the privilege of
doing this is usually granted him for not more than one Sunday, in two
sermons. All his merits, and these, too, only such as fit him for the
pulpit, are judged of under the embarrassments of this one ordeal.
Other qualifications remain unseen. Whether he takes with the people
or not depends upon the hit he makes and on the mood his audience
happen to be in. Oftentimes the decision turns upon the caprice of those
least capable of appreciating spiritual worth. And the evil is enhanced
when, as most commonly happens, the exhibition is made in a sort of
competition with several others who are desirous of the same place.
Now, to a sensitive nature, to one who realizes the solemnity of the
issues pending, this whole proceeding cannot butb e exceedingly repuls-
ive. Under the conditions involved the trial is an altogether unfair
one, and often painfully humiliating. Many are the instances in which
the result is that worth fails and flash and show succeed. Rather than
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[August,
undergo it, many a young man would prefer to work his way into a pay-
ing practice either in medicine or at the bar, even though it might take
him years longer. The hindrance is a serious one. It demands the
earnest consideration of our presbyteries. Unless some measures can be
adopted for removing or abating it, many gifted young men will be kept
out of our pulpits. There are not a few who would prefer the method
of direct appointment, such as is in force among the Methodists and in
the United Presbyterian Church, to the haphazard ways prevalent
among us. Undesirable as some things are in connection with it, it
would save much waste of cultivated talents and many long pulpit
vacancies and secure employment for all. In a letter just received from
a pastor now in service, and who has been so for thirty-five years, com-
menting upon our previous article, he assigns, as the first of two reasons
which are deterring both him and others from urging upon young men
to seek the ministry, “ the nuisance of candidating.” The expression
is a strong one ; but is it too strong ? And if candidating as now prac-
ticed be a “ nuisance,” ought it not to be suppressed? Why should the
Presbyterian Church tolerate “ nuisances ” ?
The other hindrance will be considered in our next article.
DOES IT PAY ON THE WHOLE?
On this question, often asked in view of an occasional failure on the
part of candidates for the ministry who are aided by the Board of
Education, we venture to publish the following neat remarks from a
correspondent, sent to us while at the General Assembly :
I read with much interest your remarks and those of your correspond-
ents in the Record in the last number on the waste of money on candi-
dates who fall off by the way. I am reminded of a reply of the late
William E. Dodge, who, with his venerable father-in-law, Mr. Phelps,
was always helping young men into the ministry. When I asked him if
he was not discouraged by the failure of some on whom he had spent
money, referring specially to one whom he had aided from the church
of which I was pastor, his reply was, “We have men in New York
who have their agents in all parts of the country where good colts are
raised, to keep an eye on the most promising ones for speed or service
and recommend them for purchase in the city. They are thus picked
up, but some of them do not realize their expectations ; but the success-
ful ones more than counterbalance all their losses. So it is with my
young men. The brilliant stars far outshine those that go out, and are
a great gain to the kingdom of God. Is not this so in all our accessions
to the Church ?”
Yours, •
1886.] EDUCATION. 293
"TRUE GRIT”— A STIMULUS FOR STUDENTS AND MINISTERS.
The following extract from a letter lately sent from New Orleans to
President Hopkins, of Williams College, by a graduate of fifty years
ago, and published in the New York Evangelist , we reprint for the ben-
efit of those who do not see that valuable journal. It is an illustration
of what may be done by a resolute will, made strong in faith, towards
mastering difficulties in achieving an education and carrying on the
Lord’s work. We concede, it is not given to all to do the same things
either in the way of courage or of opportunity. All are not Samsons.
Circumstances also change, and what is possible at one time may not be
possible at another. Since fifty years ago the order of things is no
longer the same at Williams and at Amherst and at other colleges.
Then the long vacation was put in the winter, to give students an
opportunity to teach in the town schools if they needed it — and students
for this purpose were much sought for. Other conveniences for self-
help were also afforded which are not now obtainable; hence what was
practicable then cannot be so readily repeated now. Even with such
aids as the Board of Education is giving at present, we know there are
many who are as energetically working out the problem of self-support
wfith rare toil and endurance while prosecuting their studies as the man
in question was. Still, no doubt, more may be done in this direction
than is doing; and it is for the sake of stirring emulation and quicken-
ing energy that we give the instance of heroic performance narrated
below. There is a trumpet-tone in it which rouses the blood.
When I started to fit for college, it was said, “ Ho ! what a foolish
undertaking ! Such a sickly, spindling fellow will never live to go
through college.” My father gave me my time (a year and a half) till
twrenty-one, and did not consider that of any value. The wife of the
pastor of the church altered over the “ go-to-meeting” suit of her father,
deceased, to fit me out decently, and I started by private conveyance
with less than five dollars in my pocket. They said, “ He will be back
in less than a fortnight.” On my first interview with Dr. Griffin, he
said, “ You wish to be a beneficiary of the Education Society, I sup-
pose.” I told him “No, sir, if I can avoid it.” He replied, “That is
out of the question.” Prof. Kellogg said, “Well, well, if you wish to
try I suppose you can.” [I hear the professor say that.]
Thank goodness, I not only lived to go through college without aid
from the Education Society, but I have outlived most of my college and
theological seminary classmates, and am an able-bodied seaman still,
and, God helping me, intend to stand by until the morning. Like a
bulrush, I bend about but have not broken off. I am just completing
twenty years of labor among seamen in this southern climate, through
thick and thin — often more thick than thin — but have never been con-
fined to my bed a single day by illness through the twenty years. As
our Connecticut coat-of-arms has it, “ Qui transtulit sustinet .”
8*
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EDUCATION.
[August,
My establishment here is the original Bethel built for seamen in better
days. I have one of the best free sailor reading-rooms on the eastern
American coast. It is my personal property, and the Lord of hosts is
with us. I receive no salary from any source. I desire no better pay
than that promised to those who turn many to righteousness. I can say
with old Jacob, u with my staff I crossed over, but have become two
bands.” Labor among seamen is pre-eminently a work of faith, but
there is none more productive.
Of the writer of the above our correspondent says, “ I remember an
account of his escape from a peril of his life somewhere in Virginia, as
an ‘ abolitionist,’ not a great while before the war, when an escape from
such an accusation was a thing to be prized, anywhere south of Mason
and Dixon’s line.”
RECEIPTS FOR EDUCATION IN JUNE, 1886.
Atlantic. — Yadkin— Boon ville, 2 00
Baltimore. — Baltimore — Baltimore Brown Memo-
rial, 45 79
Colorado. — Boulder — Valmont, 21
Dakota — Southern Dakota — Montrose sab-sch., 2 50
Illinois. — Cairo — Metropolis, 3 25. Schuyler —
Hers man, 4 ; Wythe, 3. Springfield — Pisgah, 1 41 ;
Unity, 55 cts. 12 21
Indiana. — Crawfordsville — Bethany, 11. Fort
Wayne — Huntington, 5 75. Indianapolis — Indian-
apolis 2d, 75 14. Logansport — Qoodland, 3 ; South
Bend 1st, 21 31. White Water— College Corner, 2;
Knightstown, 2 ; Liberty, 4 ; Rising Sun, 2. 126 20
Iowa. — Cedar Rapids — Richland Centre, 8. Coun-
cil Bluffs — Hamburg, 3. Dubuque — Independence 1st,
19 15. Iowa City — Sugar Creek, 2. 32 15
Kansas. — Solomon — Bellevillo, 2 ; Mankato, 3.
Topeka — Vineland, 3 50. 8 50
Kentucky. — Louisville — Louisville Walnut St.,
6 60; Louisville Warren Memorial, 40 16. 46 76
Michigan. — Detroit — Detroit Memorial, 6 33.
Grand Rapids— Mackinaw City, 1. 7 33
Minnesota. — Red River — Angus, 2. St. Paul —
Minneapolis Bethlehem, 2 07. Winona — Lake City,
20 12. 24 19
Missouri.— Osage— Butler, 8. St. Louis— Caronde-
let, 10. 18 00
Nebraska. — Hastings — Minden, 1 60. Omaha —
Blackbird Hills, 2 50. 4 00
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Elizabeth Westminster,
75 94; Roselle, 10 51. Jersey City— Tenafly, 6.
Morris and Orange — Madison, 3 87. Newark — New-
ark 2d, 17 89. Newton — Blairstown, 76 22; Mus-
conetcong Valley Junction sab-sch., 5 ; Musconetcong
Valley New Hampton sab-sch., 5. 200 43
New York. — Boston — Newburyport 2d, 50. Brook-
lyn— Brooklyn Throop Ave., 41 34. Cayuga — Cayuga,
6. Champlain— Port Henry 1st, 50. Geneva— Man-
chester 1st, 14. Hudson— Montgomery 1st, 10;
Ridgebury, 1. Nassau — Smithtown, 7 ; A thank
offering, 10. New York— New York Brick, 55 41;
New York Covenant, 190 82; New York 1st, 1000;
New York Westminster, 19 02. Troy — Cambridge,
10; Lansingburgh 1st, 30 21; Lansingburgh Olivet,
18 03; Waterford, 35 37. Westchester — West Farms,
2. 1550 20
Ohio. — BeUefontaine — Bellefontaine 1st, 1 44. Cin-
cinnati— Avondale, 42 ; Cincinnati 7th, 39 ; Cincin-
nati Central, 42 19; Cincinnati Westminster, 30.
Cleveland — Rome, 50 cts. Huron — Tiffin, 5. Mahon-
ing—Cl&rkaou, 1; Kinsman, 12. Marion — Iberia, 7.
Maumee— Edgerton sab-sch., 2 10. Portsmouth—
Eckmansville, 5 ; Ripley, 8 75. Steubenville — Island
Creek, 8 60. 204 68
Pacific. — Sacramento — Carson City, 5 00
Pennsylvania. — Blairsville— Blairsville, 56; Brad-
dock, 14 65. Butler — Fairview, 2 ; Plain Grove, 13.
Carlisle — Harrisburg Westminster, 6 25 ; Mechan-
icsburgh, 14 92. Erie — East Greene, 1 ; Warren, 8 71.
Huntingdon — Logan?s Valley, 5. Lackawanna —
Wilkesbarre 1st, 110 83. Lehigh— Bethlehem, 6.
Northumberland — Jersey Shore, 50; Williamsport 2d
sab-sch., 22 87. Philadelphia— Philadelphia 1st, 418.
Philadelphia Central — Philadelphia Princeton, Mrs.
E. F. Hardie, 110. Philadelphia North — Chestnut
Hill, 88 ; Falls of Schuylkill, 18. Pittsburgh— Pitts-
burgh 2d, 10 60; Pittsburgh East Liberty, 30; Pitts-
burgh Shady Side, 58 60. Westminster — Leacock sab-
sch., 4 67. 1049 10
Utah. — Montana — Hamilton, 1 ; Helena, 24 30.
25 30
Wisconsin. — Lake Superior — Newberry, 4 39.
Madison — Cottage Grove, 2. Niobrara — Oakdale, 5.
11 39
Total receipts from churches and Sabbath-
schools in June, 1886 $3,375 84
refunded.
J. Douglas Tribby 100 00
interest on permanent funds.
From City Loan (six months), 838 50; from
mortgages, 375 1,213 50
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. John Pitkin, 5; Mrs. M. P. Kimball,
5; C., N. Y., 1; Rev. W. L. Tarbet and
Wife, 96 cts. ; a thank offering, 5 16 96
Total receipts in July, 1886 $4,706 30
Total receipts from April 15, 1886 13,441 17
JACOB WILSON, Treasurer ,
1334 Chestnut St., Phila.
1886. J
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
BOxlRD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
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RECENT INTELLIGENCE.
The bad news from Kwai Ping, Kwangsi, China, was learned soon after our last
issue, and is now generally known — the attack by a Chinese mob on our missionaries,
Mr. and Mrs. Fulton and Miss Fulton, M.D., and the destruction of everything but
their lives. Their escape was a very narrow one, but they had safely reached Canton.
Thus has the work in Kwangsi, just begun and apparently full of promise, met with a
sad reverse ; nor does it seem likely to be soon resumed. The missionaries meet with
great sympathy. Their further plans were not settled at the latest dates.
Added to the Church. — At Ningpo, three ; on tours from Chiengmai, two and
eight; Beirut, six — making eighty in six months; Angom, eleven; Bahia, one; Gua-
temala, one.
The Field in Upper India. — Drawing a line from Allahabad east below Oude to the
Himalayas, and west to the Indus, the population north and northwest of it may be stated
at over sixty millions, out of the two hundred and fifty millions of the Hindus. These
sixty millions include the most energetic races of the country. Missionary efforts for
their conversion date mostly within the last fifty years. In other parts of India such
efforts were of far earlier origin. The number of European and American mission-
aries, we see it stated, is now 138 — American, 66, and European, 72 — not near so
many ministers as are found in some of our single cities. The Presbytery of New
York in 1885 reported 127 ministers. It is in this part of India that the Furrukhabad
and Lodiana missions of our Board are at work. This paragraph is not “ recent in-
telligence,” though suggested by recent inquiries. It may lead to prayer for more
laborers in Upper India.
Receipts : May and June, 1886.
From churches. Individual donors. Bequests. Total.
$23,833 $9,473 $8,032 $41,379
For comparison —
May and June, 1885. 37,275 17,046 9,071 63,393
Latest Dates to July 15. — From the Omaha mission, July 11 ; Seminole, June 30 ;
Creek, July 1 ; Court d’Oreilles, July 1 ; Poplar Creek, July 1 ; Nez Perce, June 28 ;
San Francisco, June 28 ; Yokohama, June 11 ; Tokio, June 11 ; Seoul, May 14; Peking,
May 24; Tsinanfu, May 1; Tungchow, May 21; Chefoo, May 20; Nanking, May 7 ;
Ningpo, May 24; Hangchow, May 1 ; Shanghai, May 31 ; Canton, June 1 ; Chiengmai,
April 20; Futtehgurh, May 28; Lodiana, May 7; Lahor, May 22; Jhansi, May 18;
Panhala, May 24; Teheran, May 15; Hamadan, May 14; Beirut, May 26; Monrovia,
May 20 ; Rio de Janeiro, May 13 ; Bahia, June 11 ; Guatemala, May 29.
GABOON AND C0RISC0 MISSION.
QUESTIONS OF HEALTH.
Our readers are acquainted with the general reputation of the western African
coast as to the health of foreigners. Our Gaboon and Corisco mission has suffered
great loss in this respect in that climate. The case was thus stated in the Board’s
Annual Report of 1885, after its reference to the death of a beloved missionary and
the serious illness of other laborers :
It may be well to retrace for a moment the history of the mission. The Gaboon
mission was founded by the American Board in 1842, and was merged in the joint
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mission of Gaboon and Corisco in 1872. The Corisco part of the mission has an in-
dependent history from 1849 to 1872. From 1835 to 1861 (statistics from 1861 to 1872
not at hand) 16 missionaries connected with the Gaboon mission died and 13 others
were compelled to return home, not to speak of others who made frequent visits to
this country for health. In the Corisco mission, previous to its union with the Gaboon
mission, the number of deaths was 14, and of those who returned to this country
permanently, 12. Since 1872 4 have died in the joint mission and 10 have come home
to stay, while others have felt obliged t'o make repeated visits to this country after
short terms of service. In other words, the deaths and permanent returns, mostly for
health, appear to have exceeded the average number of laborers who remained in the
field.
Thus it is evident that this field has always proved unfavorable to health, and the
explanation is not far to seek. The whole coast for many miles back is penetrated by
innumerable inlets of the sea, whose banks are covered with luxuriant vegetation.
This, in that sultry climate, under the heat of a tropical sun, has caused malaria to an
intense degree. Efforts have been made (with partial success) to find more healthy
stations, but none have been quite satisfactory. A few years ago it was thought that
by the missionaries’ adopting new measures for domestic comfort better health could
be secured, but this plan has proved only partially successful. Perhaps in most cases,
missionaries whose health requires a furlough within two years should not be author-
ized to go back.
Frequently grave doubts have arisen whether it is best to continue the mission in
such a climate. . . . There are two places now occupied as mission stations at which
it is hoped comfortable health may be enjoyed — Talaguga and Angom. The former is
situated on the Ogove, the latter on the Gaboon, where these rivers leave the mount-
ains, and where their waters flow in a rapid, clear current.
Too much must not be made of all this. The gospel must be preached to people
who live in climates unfriendly to foreign missionaries. That the earnest attention of
the Board is still given to the subject is shown by what relates to it in the Annual
Report of 1886, as follows :
This report should not be ended without referring to the French restrictions and to
the health of the missionaries. The latter is a subject both of concern and of grat-
itude. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were compelled to return to this country by the very
serious illness of Mr. Robinson. He had become quite well, and it was supposed that
he could safely go back to the work in which he had so deep an interest; but he soon
had a return of the African fever of such severity as to leave little hope of his recov-
ery, and then followed imperative medical orders for his leaving the country. The
Board deeply regrets losing in Africa the valuable services of his wife as well as of
himself, but hopes that in some other mission they may still be permitted to continue
in the work for which they are well qualified and have greatly at heart. Both Mr.
Gault and Mr. Good were seriously ill, but both were restored to their usual health
after short voyages at sea. Mrs. Ogden is now in this country on a visit for her health.
Mr. Joseph H. Reading and his wife have been constrained to relinquish their strong
desire to return to Africa by the serious and apparently chronic condition of Mrs.
Reading’s health. The Board regrets sincerely to lose their earnest and efficient
labors as missionaries in the field. A young licentiate preacher, of the highest
standing in the theological seminary and in his presbytery, was under appointment to
this mission, but before his graduation at the seminary the opinion of his medical
adviser constrained all parties to consent to his not being sent to Africa, nor to any
foreign field, for the present, to the great regret of himself as well as of the Board.
We are glad to see in the latest letters still favorable accounts of Talaguga and
Angom as to sanitary conditions.
QUESTIONS OF LABORERS.
I. Should the Church depend on white men and women, or should colored people
be sought for, as missionaries in this trying climate? Of course eventually native
laborers must be the chief agents in the spread of the gospel everywhere in Africa, as
in other parts of the world ; but for the present foreigners cannot be dispensed with.
Shall they be white or colored ? For one thing, it is not yet settled that colored mis-
sionaries from this country would have better health in this part of Africa than white
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people ; and for another thing, would it be easier to find colored persons than white
of suitable qualifications? The right qualifications must be regarded as indispensable,
especially in laying the foundations. We must hope to find many such good mission-
aries eventually among the colored churches of our body, but hardly at present.
2. Should the term of service of our missionaries be shortened? or perhaps rather
should the times of furlough be increased? We find that some of our friends would
favor the return to this country of our missionaries in Africa every two or three years.
The objections to this are serious. The expense to the Church is great; the unsettled
habits of life are to the missionary injurious ; but the effect of such frequent changes
on the work itself would be disastrous to a great degree. We need not dwell on these.
Nor can we make much of the short terms of residence on the coast by mercantile
agents and French officials. Their having furloughs after short periods results from
circumstances, if not from habits, differing much from those of missionaries, happily
for the latter, and their duties are probably but little embarrassed in most cases by
their frequent absences.
3. Perhaps it would be wise to adopt the suggestion above made — virtually that of
an experimental appointment, or one subject to a two-years trial of the climate. Two
recent examples of repeated failure of health and loss of invaluable laborers by their
having to withdraw from the mission seem to favor this suggestion. In these cases a
second and unsuccessful effort to live in that climate, attended with very serious illness
and great disappointment and unsettling of plans for life-work, would have been
thereby avoided. Underlying this suggestion is the idea — may we not say the fact? —
that some white missionaries can and do live in this part of Africa. In the present
staff of laborers in the Gaboon and Corisco mission, 31 years, 25, 22, 20 and 18,
respectively, mark the term of service of two men and three women ; and as to fur-
loughs, the first has taken but three and the others but two each. We may add, with
great regret, that of those who went out since 1855 — the same year with the oldest
above — 11 have died, and 20 have returned for good, nearly all for reasons of health.
The number still in the mission is 15, not counting two, enumerated with the last
twenty as on the eve of coming home.
These are serious statistics. They call for study. Do they teach the lesson last
suggested ?
We trust a bright future is before this cherished mission. Its outlook eastward or
interiorward was never more full of promise. Its people were never more accessible.
Its laborers were never more worthy of confidence and sympathy. Its trials and be-
reavements have been distressing. God grant a great blessing now and hereafter !
MISSIONARY WORK ON THE 0G0VE, WEST AFRICA.
We are favored with a copy of extracts from the journal of the Rev.
A. Good, of Kangwe, Gaboon and Corisco mission. These will be
read with much interest. They are somewhat exceptional, combining
amusement and vexation, and serving to show the obstacles some-
times met with in our work for the heathen ; work in this case sure to
yield good fruit.
January 22, 1886. — Before I left to go to Gaboon in September,
Miss Harding was troubled in her efforts to hold meetings in the towns
on the other side of the river by a young priest from the Catholic mis-
sion. He would follow to every town where she would try to hold a
meeting and would interrupt by questions. She gave up her meetings
on account of this nuisance, till a few days ago. Yesterday he met
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her in the town called Dekar and asked who gave her authority to teach,
etc. She tried to disregard him and finished her meeting, he keeping
up the disturbance to the end. Feeling that things had gone far enough,
I took her canoe and went across to hold meetings. Talked briefly in
two lower towns and then went to Dekar, where I was gathering a
crowd when he came almost on a run and all his boys following. With-
out any form of salutation or suggestion of politeness, he was beginning
to demand in loud, boisterous tones by what authority we preached to
the people. I checked him and had some fun at his expense by being
excessively polite, after which again he opened the controversy. He
went back to the beginning and tried to base his presumption on the
apostolic succession, etc. I avoided, as far as possible, the questions,
knowing the answers were unintelligible to the people ; and when I did
answer, it was useless, for his knowledge of Mpongwe did not admit of
his understanding what I said. We talked perhaps an hour and a half,
when I invited him to go to the superior. Went and asked if he sanc-
tioned this following us about and openly interfering with our work.
Told him candidly I preferred the old method of letting each other
alone. He replied that he would not himself go to town for the purpose
of meeting us, but he would not hinder his brother priest if he wished
to follow that method.
January 28. — Went to-day to the first Fangwe town up river to hold
a meeting ; while the people were gathering, my young opponent of
yesterday appeared. Again he began the methods of yesterday, but
his interpreter could not manage the big words of an ecclesiastical con-
troversy, so was compelled to make his attack personal. Tried to
prejudice the people by making us out as opposed to rum and tobacco.
Quoted our hymn-book, but the Fangwe not understanding the book did
understand that we used tobacco in buying and denied his charge.*
Even tried to make the people angry with us because their town was
burned on account of a palaver commencing at Kangwe. I put the
blame where it belonged, and asked where I was when it happened.
The Fangwe at once exonerated me and threw the blame on the French
commandant. Then he tried to frighten me by loud, angry talk, when
the Fangwe interfered and told him to go ; they wanted no quarrelling
in their town. He cooled off, but would not go. In course of the con-
versation he called me a liar, and was very abusive. Finally the Fangwe
proposed a characteristic mode of settlement. They could not under-
stand the dispute, but said let each party stay here and send a canoe for
tobacco ; let it be brought and given, then we will know who is best.
He fell in with this plan at once, and I let him commit himself thoroughly.
Then I told them plainly that the word of God was what I came to
give. If they heard it, well ; if not it was their palaver ; I would preach
it to them, but would not pay them to listen ; it was worth being heard
without their attention being bought, and to my surprise the people
* We do what we can to oppose the use of tobacco, but its use is so universal and it
often seems to take the place of much worse evils, of smoking Leamba (Indian hemp)
and rum drinking, that it seems for the present best to let the people have it, except
in case of children who have not yet become slaves to any of the above evil habits.
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299
said I was right. I left, inviting them to come on the morrow and hear
God’s word. We are to meet again in O-yen-anlo. What will the end
of these things be?
January 25. — Went as I had promised to O-yen-anlo about 8 P.M.
Was met by the young priest. Soon the people gathered until there was
a large crowd, probably three to four hundred, notably the elders of
the towns. Before the discussion opened, I spoke briefly, depicting the
interruption and personal abuse of our former meetings and proposing
the priest be allowed to present his side of the question without inter-
ruption, urging him at the same time to avoid the discussion of old
questions that the people could not understand and confine himself to a
clear statement of what, according to their belief, was the way of salva-
tion ; then when he had finished, allow me to show the plan of salva-
tion as we understand it. The people enthusiastically seconded my pro-
posal, and my opponent was compelled to begin under such a promise.
He spoke only a few minutes when the father superior appeared on the
scene and at once began speaking, the younger man seating himself.
Said he could not have me speak in O-yen-anlo without speaking too.
He talked until he was tired, I allowing him to say what he pleased ex-
cept once, when I a^ked him to show where Christ, as he had declared,
said “ all men should hear and obey the pope as his representative on
earth.” I offered him a Bible, which he took and glanced at and was
handing back with the remark it was English, when I stunned him by
saying, “ It is a French Bible,” and insisted on his proving his assertion.
He was dumb for a moment, utterly nonplussed ; then he handed back
the book without a word and changed the subject. After a while he
was tired and sat down. Then I took the floor, or rather the middle of
the street, and replied, trying to do what he had failed to do, confine
my remarks as much as possible to a presentation of the way of salva-
tion and contrasting our teachings on the subject with theirs. They
tried to get revenge on me by asserting that something was in Scripture
that was not, and when I asked them to show it to me, they presented a
passage quoted in their prayer-book, but written in Latin. Evidently
they thought I would not know Latin and would thus be entrapped, and
they could then assert what they pleased, or at least turn the laugh on
me. I translated it at once, and it proved not to be what they said it
was at ail, but a verse on my side. After a couple hours talk the dis-
cussion broke up; then the father superior called me aside and asked
me to drop the whole matter and he would try to keep his young brother
quiet. I promised that if he did so we would let everything be as
before, i. e ., to avoid trouble we would not hold meetings in the towns
above Dekar, but insisted that in all places except those immediately
around their mission, they should not again interfere in any way with
our work. Thus I hope this singular strife has ended.
A LETTER OF MISS NASSAU.
We need hardly ask that this letter may be read. It was written at
Talaguga, Ogove river, February 26, 1886.
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We have grateful record to make at Talaguga, with the beginning of
a new year, regarding the comfortable health of ourselves and little
Mary ; though, indeed, my brother took a very severe cold when return-
ing from the meetings of mission and presbytery, which this year were
held at Benita, in my beautiful old Bolondo home. Dr. Nassau was
absent from December 22 until January 27. I had no fears about being
left alone at Talaguga, for I do not see or imagine any trouble from the
natives in the adjacent villages; but I dreaded the sole responsibility of
little Mary. Yet it was my brother’s duty to go and mine to stay with
baby, and such being the case, we knew the dear Lord would provide ;
and he did so, in his own wonderful way. Instead of the long delay at
Gaboon for passage up on some one of the trading steamers, my brother
found one very promptly, and our Scotch friend, Mr. Sinclair, put his
steam launch at his service from Kangwe up ; and for me, no accident
and no sickness befell the little one, and strength “ sufficient” was given
to me.
I find always the sweetest refreshment when holding religious services
with the natives. Though I had around me in Talaguga station only
six young men, including the resident Bible-reader, Mamba, and several
boys and girls, with nurse Hendi, the Benga womarf, we had very pleas-
ant and precious meetings during the “week of prayer.” As I did not
know the programme for the rest of the world, I drew up one for our-
selves— topics as follows :
January 3, Sabbath — Monthly concert, history of the Gaboon and
Corisco mission.
Monday — Praise and thanksgiving for the gospel of heaven brought
to these tribes in Lower Guinea.
Tuesday — Confession that we have not done all we might to carry or
send this gospel to interior tribes.
Wednesday — Prayer for native ministers, licentiates, elders and Bible-
readers, and that God may increase the number.
Thursday — Prayer for native church members, and especially for
those under censure and for the wanderers.
Friday — Prayer for interior tribes, that the hearts of Christian natives
may be turned to go to them.
Saturday — Prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit for all these
objects.
I proposed to Mamba, the Bible-reader, that he should hold a noon
prayer-meeting throughout the week, and I would take charge and with
his assistance conduct the evening meetings. The interest grew from
day to day. It was delightful to listen to the singing as the sweet
sounds came from the Hill House, where Mamba lives. Just at this
time Mamba is the only professing Christian in the little company at
Talaguga; but there are four in the catechumen class, and the religious
feeling is very observable in all, so that our mission circle is like a
refreshing oasis amidst the surrounding Fangwe carelessness and ignor-
ance. Oh, how I long to know that one of these poor Fangwe who are
crowding down the river and emerging from their far interiorward homes
is really and truly a Christian ! Regular journeys are made to the
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FOREIGN MISSIONS.
301
towns, and always the effort is made to teach them the alphabet. A
few know it, but many are being taught. Since December I have been
so occupied with household cares, and the care of little Mary since her
nurse left, that Mamba is the only one who has been carrying on the
work in the towns. My journeys were generally independent of his.
The Fang we seldom come to our Sabbath service; the greater need
therefore is it that we go frequently and regularly to them. Mamba
and I both note the increasing attentiveness of the people to our instruc-
tions in town meetings.
My brother enjoyed in an unusual degree meeting with the dear broth-
ers and sisters at Gaboon and Benita. Some important steps were
taken, especially in regard to greater sympathy for and encouragement
and help to the native licentiates and candidates; and not one day too
soon were these steps taken. Licentiate J. M. Kingolo was thus saved
to the work, as we trust. You will be glad to hear that Frank S.
Myingo, wrho was licensed in January, 1878, and who has done such
admirable work as teacher of the Elongo School on Corisco, is to be
ordained at Batanga and placed in charge of that church and parish.
Oh, I do thank God for his “keeping” these young men. Their trials
have been severe and peculiar, and not all of them have come from hea-
thenism or trade influences. I think that with the encouragement and
more generous assistance which the Presbytery of Corisco now proposes
to offer to the educated young men, we may again see a number of can-
didates for the ministry. At present I do not think there are any.
Mr. Good is, actively as possible, placing out young men as Bible-
readers ; and here again we feel how the closing of schools is disastrous
to our work. Where are the suitable men to be found ? Those who
are at Talaguga, at Kangwe and the Bible-stations on this river. The
best assistants are those who commenced study at Kangwe with Dr.
Nassau and myself, in 1875 to 1878. I teach every day those at this
station who wish to learn, and such are making good progress. I have
had for about four months a little Fangwe girl who now reads Mpongwe
and the little of Fangwe that Imunga, my Benga assistant, has been
able to print. We hope much from her. We really, at this station, do
as much teaching as we are able.
GOOD NEWS FROM ANGOM.
The Rev. A. W. Marling writes from his station in the Gaboon and
Corisco mission, Africa, which he speaks of as “ Jal Angom (town of
peace), Como river,” a tributary of the Gaboon river, as we under-
stand. His letter is dated May 2, 1886. Our space permits the inser-
tion of only a part of his letter, as follows :
I am sure you will rejoice to hear that since we have resumed our
work here, our gracious Lord and Master has given us some very marked
tokens of his blessing.
When we first returned in September of last year, we held our Sun-
day meetings as formerly in the palaver houses (mbanjas) of the town.
After awhile we had seats made under the projecting roof of the bamboo
8**
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[August,
house in which we dwelt. The attendance at the meetings and the in-
terest shown were both encouraging. It is our constant endeavor, and
has been always, to be faithful in teaching the great doctrines of sin
and salvation in such a form as shall be intelligible to the people, and in
urging them to abandon the former and accept the latter. Many of
their customs I have to preach against, polygamy, fighting, stealing, trust
in fetiches, lying, etc., and I endeavor to make the way of salvation ap-
pear broad enough for those who are willing to renounce sin, but not
broad enough for those who voluntarily cling to sin. I also try to pre-
sent the Saviour in his beauty and attractiveness, setting forth his glo-
rious life and expiatory death, and preaching the forgiveness of sins
and renewal of the heart by the Holy Spirit, through the crucified and
risen Lord, at the same time also plainly declaring the fatal consequences
of rejecting him, the only mediator between God and man.
Here, as elsewhere, these doctrines are not pleasing to the natural
heart of man, whose pride they humble and whose corruptions they
condemn. But here too, as elsewhere, these grand old doctrines which
have their foundation in eternal truth, and which will stand against all
the assaults of men and all the wiles of the evil one, are made by the
blessed Spirit of God effectual in turning men from darkness to light
and from the power of Satan unto God. . . .
More than a month ago, at the close of our Sunday morning service,
in which I had explained the nature of baptism and told them of my
intention of baptizing believers, I called upon those who repented of
past sins and accepted Christ, to speak out then and there. Ten re-
sponded. I took down their names and told them I would give them
further instructions to prepare them for baptism.
Since then I have at the close of every meeting called for confessors.
Many hang back, because they love their sins, and are not willing to
give up polygamy, love of war, heathen customs, etc., but others have
confessed. By this time (May 10), through the grace of God, I have
on my book the names of fifty-four people of this and neighboring towns
who have professed repentance and faith in Christ.
Last week I spent considerable time in dealing individually with some
of these, and yesterday at our morning service I had the deep pleasure
of baptizing eleven persons, all of whom I had reason to believe had
genuine faith. To God be all the praise. My heart is very thankful
for all this blessing. During this week I expect to spend much time
again in dealing with those who have confessed.
Our house is now almost completed: we consider it a “gem.” May
we be permitted to spend many years in it, doing the Lord’s work
among these people.
It may be that the publication of some of these encouraging facts of
which I have told you will conduce to the glory of God and the
strengthening of our cause.
I am much grieved that Brother Campbell is compelled to go home.
He had such good business capacity that his departure will leave a void
in Gaboon which will be hard to fill. But God knows what is best for
us all.
A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MAY 1, 1886.
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Two Stations and several Outstations
Two Stations and seven Outstations
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Laos
CHINA:
Canton Mission
Ningpo “
North China Mission
Chinese in America
JAPAN:
KOREA :
PERSIA:
SYRIA:
!
*
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305
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION IN CHINA.
The note here inserted sets before us a line of missionary policy that
has met with very encouraging results. A missionary board may have
too many missions. It may also lack concentration in its methods.
But as to the “ four ends,” the missions of our Church endeavor to keep
them in view. This paragraph suggests inquiry especially as to the sub-
ject of concentration.
The English Presbyterian Church confines its missionary operations
almost entirely to China, where it has important and successful work in
the Amoy and Swatow districts and in the island of Formosa. Its last
annual report gives a very masterly historical sketch of the mission and
an account of the principles on which it is carried on. This sketch will
repay careful study. It enunciates a definite missionary policy ; one
not very popular at the present time, but one which God has signally
blessed, and one which in India the great Scotch missionaries have
worked out so mightily. It concentrates the European force at a few
centres, and directs its strength to four ends — the training of native
agents, educational work of various grades, Christian literature and
medical missions. The report states that there were 5268 baptized
members, of whom 3312 are communicants. The income of the year
was <£16,223 [or $81,000]. — Church Missionary Intelligencer, July,
1886.
RECEIPTS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS IN JUNE, 1886.
Atlantic. — Atlantic — Goodwill, 5 00
Baltimore. — Bal.timoi'e — Churchville, 34. New
Castle — Elkton, for Corea, 3 67, India, 2 56. 40 23
Colorado. — Boulder — Cheyenne, 20; Valmont, 1 35.
21 35
Columbia.— Oregon— Jacksonville, 6 55; Roseburg,
4 35; Albina 1st, Children’s Day, 5 65. 16 55
Illinois. — Alton — Virden sab-seb., 4 47. Cairo —
America, 1 50; Caledonia, 1 70; Metropolis, 4 65.
Chicago— Chicago 3d, 23 10. Ottawa — Plato 1st, 5.
Peoria — Prospect, 36. Rock River — Peniel sab-sch.,
5. Springfield — Decatur sab-sch., for China, 100;
Jacksonville Westminster sab-sch., 12 63; Pisgah,
6 61; Unity, 2 60 ; Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife, 4 50.
207 76
Indiana. — Crawfordsville — Bethany, 83 55; State
Line, 5. Fort Wayne — Fort Wayne 1st sab-sch., 50.
Indianapolis — Hopewell sab-sch., 17 04. Logansport
— Bourbon, 4 70. New Albany — Bedford, 6 25. Yin-
cennes — Evansville Grace sab-sch., 17 04. White
Water — College Corner, 2 85; Liberty, 7 70; Rising
Sun, 5. 199 13
Iowa. — Council Bluffs— Conway, 4; Morning Star,
1 35; Woodbine, 1 24; Children’s Day, 2 76. Iowa —
Libertyville, 4 25 ; Winfield Young Ladies’ Miss.
Band, 10. 23 60
Kansas. — Emporia — White City, 3. Lamed — Prai-
rie Lee, 1 75; Pleasant Hill, 3 74; Rev. J. McCrea,
4 51. 13 00
Kentucky. — Louisville — Louisville College St.,
68 95; Warren Memorial, 5. Transylvania — Perry -
villo, 5. 78 95
Michigan. — Detroit — Detroit Jefferson Ave., 310;
Memorial, 41 77 ; Milford United sab-sch., for Persia,
15. Grand Rapids — Big Rapids Westminster, 15 14.
Kalamazoo — J. W. Fisk, 10. Lansing — Eckford Union
sab-sch., 4 73. Monroe — Raisin, 12 50. Saginaw —
Flint 1st, 66. 475 14
Minnesota. — Mankato — St. Peter Union, for China,
13. Red River — Angus, 5. St. Paul — Minneapolis
Andrew, 11 40; Bethlehem, 8 59; Westminster,
219 99; Shakopee 1st sab-sch., 7 75. Winona— La
Crescent, Children’s Day, 4. 269 75
Missouri. — Osage — Jefferson City, 6 45; McCune
sab-sch., 1 60. Platte — Rockport, 9. St. Louis —
Bethel Ger., 8 15. 25 20
Nebraska. — Kearney — Kearney, Mrs. M. S. Lyman,
167; North Loup, 7 76; Wilson Memorial, 3 68, sab-
sch., 5 75. Nebraska City — Tecumseh, 2. Niobrara —
Wayne, James House, 10. Omaha — Lyons, 6. 202 19
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Crauford, 6 07 ; Eliza-
beth Siloam sab-sch., 5 09 ; Westminster Hope Miss,
sab-sch., 15; Roselle, 57 02, sab-sch., 41 13. Jersey
City — Jersey City Bergen 1st, for Bogota, 212 78;
Claremont, 30; Paterson Broadway Ger. sab-sch.,
4 52; Rutherford 1st, 56 79. Monmouth— Farming-
dale, 40. Morris and Orange — Flanders Ladies’ Soc.,
5 ; Madison, 25 57 ; Orange Central sab-sch., 8. New-
ark— Montclair, 56 32; Newark 2d, 60 27 ; 3d, 29 01 ;
Park, 79 78. New Brunswick— Dayton, 42 22. New-
ton— Belvidere 1st, 55; Danville, 16; Oxford 1st, Mr.
George Sanson, 5. West Jersey — Cedarville 1st, 11 24.
861 81
New York. — Brooklyn — Brooklyn 1st, 50; Franklin
Ave., 18 17; Lafayette Ave., 5, sab-sch. Miss. Asso.,
175; S. 3d St., E. D., 26 44; Throop Ave., 6L 18.
Buffalo — Buffalo Central, for China, 75 ; North, 110 77.
Cayuga — Auburn 2d, 27 18; Cayuga sab-sch., 7 50.
Note. — Cayuga Presbytery, Miss F. C. Bascour, Lud-
lowville, N. Y., 69, omitted in acknowledgments of
March receipts. Genesee — North Bergen, 8. Geneva
— Geneva 1st, 46 35; Seneca Falls, 84. Hudson —
Goshen sab-sch., for Gaboon, 50. Long Island —
Franklinville, 14 ; Mattituck, 11 ; Shelter Island sab-
sch., 14. Lyons — Junius, 5. Nassau — Jamaica,
69 58 ; “A pastor,” 5 ; “ A thank-offering,” 50. New
York — New York 1st, 1000, sab-sch., 97 80; 4th Ave.,
1000; University Place, a member, 200; Washington
Heights, 7 57; 1st Mission sab-sch., 37 33; Zion Ger.,
29 19. North River — Newburg Calvary, 11 23. Ot-
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[August,
sego — Delhi 2d, a friend, 80. Rochester — Brockport
sab-sch., 3 44; Rochester Brick, 330, sab-sch., for
Mexico, 480. St. Lawrence — Gouverneur, 10. Syra-
cuse— Syracuse 1st, 39 72. Troy — Cambridge, 20 ;
Cohoes, 20; Woodside sab-sch., 103 35; Waterford,
28 38. Utica — Rome 1st, 61 93. 4143 11
North Dakota. — Bismarck — Sterling, 1. Fargo —
Lisbon 1st, 14 25. 15 25
Ohio. — Bellefontaine — Bellefontaine, 9 52. Chilli-
cothe — Wilmington sab-sch., 10. Cincinnati — Cincin-
nati 2d, 15 46 ; Mt. Auburn sab-sch., 144 60 ; West-
minster, 125 ; Montgomery, 34 31 ; Pleasant Ridge
sab-sch., 3 71. Cleveland — Rome, 3 30; Streets-
borough, 2 30. Dayton — Osborn, 2. Huron — Milan
sab-scli., 4 62 ; Tiffin, 4 28. Mahoning — Clarkson, 1;
Niles, 13, sab-sch., 4; Youngstown 1st, 50 09. Ports-
mouth— Eckmansville, 6 50; Red Oak, 2 50. St.
Clairsville — Concord, 14 60. Steubenville — Feed Spring
sab-sch., 5 ; Lima sab-sch., 4 ; Minerva, 4 50 ; Toronto,
15. Wooster — Wooster Westminster, 15 12, sab-sch.,
6. Zanesville — Otsego, 1 43. 501 84
Pacific. — Sacramento — Elk Grove, 6. San Jos6 —
San Leandro, Rev. J. B. Warren, 10. 16 00
Pennsylvania. — Allegheny — Springdale sab-sch.,
14. Butler — Karns City, 2 ; Scrub Grass sab-sch., 22.
Carlisle — McConnellsburgh, 4 30; Wells Valley, 3 50.
Chester — Fairview, 15; Media, 16 34. Clarion —
Shiloh, 3 ; Presbyterial collection, 25 18. Erie— Fre-
donia, 11; Greenfield, 1. Huntingdon — Mount Union
sab-sch., 4; Tyrone 1st sab-sch. for India, 15. Kit-
tanning— Apollo, 62; Marion, 10 19. Lackawanna —
Montrose sab-sch., 16 29; Tunkhannock, 17 37.
Lehigh — Easton Brainerd sab-sch., 10 58. Northum-
berland— Chillisquaque, 31 95; Orangeville, 20;
Williamsport 1st, 45. Philadelphia — Philadelphia
10th sab-sch., for Siam, 23 50 ; Tabernacle, Miss S. Bor-
din, 10. Philadelphia Central — Philadelphia Kensing-
ton 1st, 55. Philadelphia North — Mount Airy, 8 41.
Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh East Liberty, 104 ; Lawrence-
ville, 125; Shady Side, 146 50. Redstone — Union-
town, 78 40 ; Pleasant Unity, Bertie McKee Galla-
gher, 1. Shenango — Mahoning, thank offering, a
member, 12. Westminster — York Calvary, 27 58.
941 09
Utah. — Montana — Timberline, 3. Utah — Evans-
ton, 2. 5 00
Wisconsin.— Madison — Fancy Creek, 3 63; Broad-
head sab-sch., Children’s Day, 2 71 ; Highland, 11 ;
College Grove, 2. Winnebago — Oshkosh, 20 86 ; sab-
sch., 1 84 ; Oxford, 1. 43 04
WOMAN’S boards.
Women’s Board of Foreign Missions, New
York $1,700 13
Women’s Foreign Missionary Soc., Phila.... 1,849 76
Woman’s Board of Missions, Northwest.... 1,700 00
$5,249 89
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. S. S. Gilson and wife, 5; Mrs. Coulter,
Pittsburgh, Pa., 10; Rev. M. Meloy,
Mervine, Pa., for China, 1 ; Rev. J. H.
Blackford, West Fayette, O., 20; “M.
L. S.,” 5000; Girls’ School, Hamadan,
Persia, 11 70 ; “A thank offering,” Short
Hill, N. J., 10; Miss M. C. Towler, Short
Hill, N. J., 1 ; Fairfield Normal Institute,
S. C. for Africa, 6; “Anon.,” 5; Mr.
Samuel W. Brown, Manayunk, Pa., 5;
1st Church, Shanghai, China, Easter Of-
fering, 9 ; May Tate, Connellsville, Ind.,
6; G. Adams, Neb., 5; “ S. H. K.,” 100;
“ For Ruthie’s Sake,” 100 ; Friend, Sale
Creek, Tenn., 1 ; Rev. H. A. Dodge, Jud-
son, Ind, 10; Western Theological Sem.
Soc. of Inquiry, 61; “H. G. K.,” Pon-
tiac, Mich., 5; Mrs. Amasa Stone, Cleve-
land, 1000 ; J. W. Stockley, 100 ; P. M.
Hitchcock, 100; P. P. Ferm, 100, Cleve-
land, Ohio, for Siam; Rev. John McClin-
tock and wife, Carmichaels, Pa., 15;
Albert H. Porter, Niagara Falls, N. Y.,
100 ; Rev. William Reed, Trenton, Mo.,
5; “A friend,” 50; “C.,” N. Y., 16;
Mary Vance, Hollidaysburg, Pa., 10;
Fanny U. Nelson, Independence, Mo.,
10; Hamadan Station, Persia, Christmas
Offering, 8 50; Rev. J. M. Goheen, Rock
Spring, Pa., 10; Mrs. M. B. Kimball,
Pennsboro’, W. Va., 10; “A Thank Of-
fering,” 8; “A friend,” 7 50; Chinese
Mission, University Place, N. Y., 3180;
W. J. Kerr, Leadville, Col., 5; Re^ Wm.
Reed, Trenton, Mo , 5; Miss Jennie
Chisholm, Elkton, Md., for Africa, 4 35.
$7,451 85
Amount received from churches, Sabbath-
schools and miscellaneous sources 20,796 71
LEGACIES.
A Champion Legacy $686 65
Legacy of John Gordon, dec’d,
Urbana, Ohio 5,399 00
6,085 65
Amount received in June, 1886 26,882 36
Total receipts from May 1, 1886 41,329 46
WM. RANKIN, Treasurer,
P. O. Box 2009. No. 23 Centre St., New York, N. Y.
Letters relating to the missions, or other opera-
tions of the Board, may be addressed to the Rev.
John C. Lowrie, Rev. Frank F. Ellinwood, Rev.
Arthur Mitchell or Rev. John Gillespie, Secre-
taries, Mission House, 23 Centre Street, New York.
Letters relating to the pecuniary affairs of the
Board, or containing remittances of money, may
be sent to William Rankin, Esq., Treasurer — same
address.
The Presbyterian Monthly Record is published
monthly for the eight Boards of the Church, at 50
cents a year for a single copy, or four copies to one
address for 25 cents each. Address Board of Publica-
tion, 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Foreign Missionary is published monthly at
$1 a year for each copy. It is sent free, when de-
sired, to donors of ten dollars and upward, and to
the ministers of our churches. Address “ The For-
eign Missionary,” Mission House, 23 Centre Street,
New York. P. O. Box 2009.
Woman’s Work for Woman and Our Mission Field
is edited and published monthly, at 60 cents a year,
by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies, auxil-
iaries to the Board. Address “ Woman’s Work,” etc.,
Mission House, 23 Centre Street, New York. P. O.
Box 2009.
Children’s Work for Children is edited and pub-
lished monthly by the Women’s Foreign Missionary
Societies. Single copies, per year, in advance, 35
cents ; five copies or more addressed to one person,
each 25 cents. Address Woman’s Foreign Missionary
Society, 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
These publications are both under the sanction of
the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
Church, and are warmly commended to public favor.
1886.] PUBLICATION. 307
BOARD OF PUBLICATION.
1334 Chestnut Street , Philadelphia , Pa.
Letters relating to the general interests of the Board, to grants of the Board’s
Publications, to the appointment of colporteurs, and all reports, orders and remit-
tances of money from colporteurs, and all other communications relating to the col-
portage work of the Board, to the Rev. John W. Dulles, D.D., Corresponding Secretary.
Manuscripts and communications concerning matter offered for publication, to the
Rev. John W. Dulles, D.D., Editorial Secretary.
Reports of Sabbath-schools and letters relating to Sabbath-school work, to the Rev.
James A. Worden, D.D., Secretary of Sabbath- school Work.
Remittances of contributions to Mr. S. D. Powel, Treasurer.
Business correspondence and orders for books and periodicals, except from col-
porteurs, and payments for the same, to Mr. John A. Black, Business Superintendent.
It is of* interest — or at least it should be — to the readers of the Record
to know what the Board of Publication is doing to meet the demands of
the Church for a fresh, wholesome and instructive literature. We there-
fore submitted to them, in the last Record , a brief description of its re-
cent publications. We call attention to them with the request that they
be noted for use in the family, the Sabbath-school and elsewhere. A
commendation of one good book from the pulpit may lead to its reading
by many, and so to great good. Some pastors and some laymen have
an idea of what may be done by the use of hooks, leaflets and tracts ;
most have not. Would not a little reflection on the part of intelligent
men lead to an enlarged apprehension of this “power of the press” and
to happy results? The new publications are given with catalogue num-
bers, for convenience in ordering. We add to the list of books noticed
in the last number a list of other works recently published.
TRACTS.
16mo, No. 33B. Immortality not Conditional. By the Rev. A. A.
Hodge, D.D. Pp. 20.
An answer to the question, “ Is it the will of God that sinners depart-
ing this life impenitent shall continue to suffer endlessly?”
Our Pit and our Rock; or, The Presbyterian Church a Friend of
Missions. 16mo, pp. 48. Sold at the rate of ten pages for one
cent, or four cents a copy.
This is the moderator’s sermon, preached at the opening of the Gen-
eral Assembly of 1885, by the Rev. George P. Hays, D.D. It awakened
so much attention that it has been printed as a tract for the times.
The Preacher and his Living ; or, The Law of Christ Touching
his Ministers. By the Rev. S. C. Logan. 16mo, 44 pp. (ten
pages for one cent).
A pungent, suggestive and stimulating discourse on the proper sup-
port of the ministry.
308 PUBLICATION. [August.
18mo, No. 219. Joining the Church. Pp. 8. By the Rev. The-
odore L. Cuyler, D.D.
Answering the important question, u Ought I to make a public pro-
fession of faith and join the Church ?”
No. 220. One’s Own Well ; or* Family Life and Joy. Pp. 20. By
the Rev. John Gillespie, D.D.
In which sins against family life, polygamy and licentiousness are
rebuked, and the purity and happiness of the home advocated.
32mo, No. 61. Why do I Believe Christianity to be a Rev-
elation ? Pp. 8. By the Rev. A. A. Hodge, D.D.
A compact reply to this vital question.
12mo Packet. Illustrated Temperance Tracts. Price, 25 cents.
A packet of thirteen temperance tracts, each with an illustrative pic-
ture on the first page, and each an attractive and effective narrative.
They are just what is wanted for distribution, because they are sure to
be read.
Certificate for Proficiency in the Shorter Catechism. Price,
10 cents.
A very neat complimentary certificate for presentation by church ses-
sions ; printed in colors on tinted paper.
sabbath-school requisites.
Sabbath-school Workers’ Class Record. Price, 2 cents.
Sabbath-school Secretary’s Record. Price, 60 cents net. In
press.
These aids to Sabbath-school organization and efficiency have been
prepared by the Secretary of Sabbath-school Work with a view to the
promotion of (1) the home study by scholars, as well as teachers, of the In-
ternational Bible Lessons ; (2) the home study by both teachers and schol-
ars of the Shorter Catechism lessons ; (3) the attendance of all scholars
at the preaching service of the church ; (4) punctual and regular attend-
ance upon the Sabbath- school ; (5) systematic giving through the boards
of the Church. It is trusted that they will prove effective helps to pas-
tors, elders and superintendents in their efforts to make the Sabbath-
school what it should be in these respects.
IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE.
Sumario de la Doctrina Cristiana (Summary of Christian Doc-
trine). Translated from the English of Prof. Francis L. Patton,
D.D. 16mo. Price, 50 cents.
Certificado de Bautismo (Certificate of Baptism). Price per dozen,
20 cents.
Certificado Matrimonio (Certificate of Marriage). Price per dozen,
15 cents.
1886.] PUBLICATION. 309
Certificado de Admission (Certificate of Church Membership).
Price per dozen, 15 cents.
IN THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE.
A Religiao Evengelica Perante o Publico (Evangelical Religion).
Pp. 24.
An exposition and defence of evangelical religion, by the Rev. Miguel
C. Torres ; strongly commended to the Board by the Presbytery of Rio
de Janeiro.
IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE.
Der Grosse Katechismus. 18mo, pp. 108. Ten pages for one cent.
The Larger Catechism of the Westminster Assembly, in German.
NEGLECTED FARMERS IN OREGON.
“ Oregon, although as large as New York and Pennsylvania, contains
only two hundred thousand inhabitants. Our towns of one thousand
inhabitants can be counted on one’s fingers. My plan in the past has
been to do the work that has come first to my hands. I have therefore
canvassed the towns, and so much of the country as I could reach on
foot. I have been living in hopes that during the summer months the
Board could allow me to undertake a work which I ought to do, and
which I only can do. I speak now of the work among the farming pop-
ulation and the stockmen. Whatever may be the reasons, our farmers
do not and will not attend church service in the towns. Our pastors
and churches, with one or two exceptions, are in the towns, and there-
fore do not reach the farming classes ; and these form the major portion
of our population. The colporteur is the only agent the Presbyterian
Church has really able to reach them. In this sparsely-settled country,
however, a team and vehicle of some sort are indispensable. We had
some correspondence some months since in regard to that matter, and I
dropped it only because the missionary fund of the Board was not in a
condition to incur additional expense. Our Church is losing much
every year in not having some one to look more closely after the immi-
grants who settle in the foot-hills and out-ranges. This work is urgent
and will not suffer delay. During the past three months my work has
been confined mostly to the towns along the foot-hills of the Cascade
mountains and the Coast Range. Most of the time I have been back
from the main line of railroad. In all the homes there is need of more
religious literature, especially for the young people. Generally, parents
allow their children to grow up with no moral training or restraint.
From childhood up they have been accustomed to rough society and the
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power of bad example. Soon they leave the older settled parts to be-
come herders in the range, where they can indulge their lawless propen-
sities, and many times meet a violent death in some drunken brawl.”
CASH RECEIPTS FOR THE MISSIONARY WORK OF THE BOARD OF PUBLICA-
TION, JUNE, 1886.
4®* Synods in small capitals — Presbyteries in Italics — Churches in Roman.
Atlantic. — Catawba — Black’s Memorial, 1 10.
McClelland — Immanuel ch. sab-sch., 60 cts. 1 60
Baltimore. — Baltimore — Baltimore 2d ch. sab-sch.,
9 10; Emmitsburgh, 24 26; Piney Creek, 15. New
Castle — Blackwater ch. Frankford sab-sch., 2 38 ;
Drawyer’s, 5 ; Head of Christiana ch. sab-sch., 6 ;
Manokin ch. sab-sch., S 36; New Castle ch. sab-sch.,
20; Pencader ch. sab-sch., 15; Rehoboth ch. (Del.)
sab-sch., 3 16; West Nottingham ch. sab-sch., 13 34;
Wicomico cb. sab-sch., 6 50; Wilmington Central ch.
(of which two members, 15), 43 37, sab-sch. infant
class, 1 63, Gilbert Chapel mission, 1 72=46 72.
Washington City — Alexandria, 1174; Lewinsville, 6;
Vienna, 4; Washington 1st ch. sab-sch., 6 50; Wash-
ington Metropolitan ch. sab-sch., infant class, 5.
208 06
Colorado. — Boulder — Boulder, 1; Cheyenne, 23;
Valmout, 12 cts. Pueblo — Alamosa ch. sab-sch., 2 57 ;
Colorado Springs, 33 31 ; Mesa ch. sab-sch., 5. 65 00
Columbia. — Oregon— Jacksonville, 2 25; Phenix, 3;
Portland St. John’s sab-sch., 2 50. 7 75
Dakota. — Central Dakota— Huron, 17 98; Miller
ch. sab-sch., 2. Southern Dakota — Bridgewater, 3;
Canton (sab-sch., 3), 6; Parker, 4 38 ; Tyndall (sab-
sch., 4), 6. 39 36
Illinois. — Alton — Baldwin, 2; Plum Creek, 1;
Staunton ch. sab-sch., 7 50. Bloomington — Bement,
7 35; Clarence, 3 ; Clinton, 7 34; Farmer City, 4 50;
Onarga ch. sab-sch., 3 ; Pontiac ch. sab-sch., 8. Cairo
— Anna ch. sab-sch., 6; Cobdeu, 5; Fairfield (sab-
sch., 2 99), 8 19 ; Murphysboro’, 4 ; Nashville, 6.
Chicago — Braidwood ch. sab-sch., 3 24; Chicago 8th,
18 41; Manteno, 7 50. Freeport — Belvidere, 16;
Marengo, 13 29; Ridgefield ch. sab-sch., 3 80; Wood-
stock, 3 50. Mattoon — Casey ch. sab-sch., 1 ; Morri-
son ville, 80 cts.; West Okaw ch. (Prairie Home sab-
sch., 4 55), 8 65. Peoria — Deer Creek, 3 ; Eureka ch.
and sab-sch., 8 10; French Grove ch. sab-sch., 3 14;
Henry, 2; Knoxville, 15 15 ; Prospect ch. sab-sch., 9 ;
Salem. 5. Rock River — Newton ch. sab-sch., 3 15;
Millersburgh, 3; Viola ch. sab-sch, 4 52. Schuyler
— Camp Creek, 7 50; Carthage, 12 32; Clayton ch.
sab-seli., 3; Monmouth, 13. Springfield — Pisgah,
1 41 ; Unity, 55 cts.; Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife, 96 cts.
243 87
Indiana. — Craw/ordsville — Elizaville, 3 65; Kirk-
lin, 190; Pleasant Hill, 2 80; Rossville, 2 20; Sugar
Creek. 1 45. Fort Wayne — Decatur ch. sab-sch., 1 25;
Fort Wayne 1st, 46 03. Indianapolis — Greenwood
ch. sab-sch., 5 95; Indianapolis 1st, 17 06; Indianap-
olis Tabernacle, 16. Logansport — Concord. 3 ; Good-
land, 2; Hebron ch. sab-sch., 1 50; Logansport
Broadway, 3; Michigan City (sab-sch., 5 09), 11 56.
Neiv Albany — Hanover, 5 41; Mitchell ch. sab-sch.,
1 75; Mount Vernon ch. sab-sch., 1 60; New Albany
1st, 32 : New Philadelphia ch. sab-sch., 1 25; Oak
Grove, 1 53 ; Pleasant Township ch. sab-sch., 4. Vin-
cennes— Evansville Walnut St., 15; Sullivan ch. sab-
sch., 3; Upper Indiana ch. sab-sch., 4; Washington
ch. sab-sch., 9 09. White Water — Cambridge City
ch. sab-sch., 10 ; College Corner, 2 ; Knightstown, 2 ;
Liberty, 1 ; Rising Sun, 2 ; Shelbyville ch. sab-sch.,
8 78. * 223 76
Iowa. — Cedar Rapids — Anamosa ch. sab-sch., 1 25;
Blairstown ch. sab-sch., 6 12 ; Lyons ch. and sab-sch., 3.
Council Bluffs — Emerson (sab-sch., 5 79), 11 14; Fair-
view ch. sab-sch., 3 10; Hamburg (sab-sch., 2), 5 01 ;
Panora ch. sab-sch., 4. Des Moines — Dexter, 3 70;
Earlham, 1 50; Indianola, 6; Knoxville, 13; Russell
ch. sab-sch., 2 40. Dubuque — Manchester, 6. Fort
Dodge — Battle Creek, 2 20 ; Cherokee (sab-sch., 2), 10 ;
Plymouth County ch. sab-sch., 6 80; Sanborn, 3 10 >
Vail, 7 48. Iowa — Birmingham ch. sab-sch., 3 65 1
Martinsburgh ch. sab-sch., 3 75. Iowa City — Craw-
fordsville, 2 25 ; Unity, 3. Waterloo— Clarksville ch.
sab-sch., 3 50; Eldora (sab-sch., 1 50), 3 30; Janesville
ch. sab-sch., 1 25 ; Salem, 8 78 ; Williams, 3 25.
128 52
Kansas. — Empori a— Belle Plaine, 11; Eldorado
(sab-sch., 2 10), 6 10; El Paso, 4; Hartford (sab-sch.,
3 33), 9 33; Marion, 14 55; Morris Co., 1 40; Que-
nemo, 3; White City ch. (sab-sch., 1 50), 3; Winfield
(sab-sch., 5 07), 24 61. Indian Territory — Achena, 1 ;
Wewoka, 8 01. Neosho — Chanute, 5 38; Columbus,
5 25 ; Erie (sab-sch., 5), 11 50 ; Girard, 10 ; Louisburgh,
2 30; Parsons, 15 91; Princeton ch. sab-sch., 6 32;
Richmond, 3 60. Osborne — Norton ch. sab-sch., 3 85.
Solomon — Belleville ch. sab-sch., 1 55 ; Bennington
(sab-sch., 3 62), 12 62; Mankato. 3; Scotch Plains, 1.
Topeka — Auburn, 3 14; Vineland, 2. 173 42
Kentucky. — Ebenezer — Dayton, 3 40; Frankfort,
20 05; Mount Sterling ch., sp., 4 12, sab-sch.. 2 11.
Louisville — Louisville Walnut St., 9 55 ; Louisville
Warren Memorial, 16 98. 56 21
Michigan. — Detroit — Detroit Memorial, 3 80;
Stony Creek ch. sab-sch., 4. Grand Rapids — Muir
ch. sab-sch., 7 ; Petoskey, 7. Saginaw — Lapeer,
5 64; Vassar ch. sab-sch., 2. 29 44
Minnesota. — Mankato— Jackson ch. sab-sch. , 3 42.
Red River — Angus, 2. St. Paul — Dundas ch. Rice’s
Point sab-sch., 5 73 ; Minneapolis 1st (sab-sch., 11 46),
38 05 ; Minneapolis Bethlehem, 85 cts.; Minneapolis
Franklin Ave. (sab-sch., 5). 11 ; Minneapolis High-
land Park, 6 35 ; Minneapolis Westminster, 124 47 ;
Oak Grove (sab-sch., 3 35), 6 10; Shakopee, 3 15; St.
Paul East, 5. 206 12
Missouri. — Osage — Warrensburg, 4. Ozark — Eben-
ezer ch. sab-sch.. 5 ; Joplin ch. sab-sch., 6 14; Lehigh,
1 25 ; Webb City, 1 50. Palmyra — Glasgow, 3 25 ;
Salisbury, 1. Platte— Albany, 2 15; Avalon, 1;
Grant City ch. sab-sch., 2 75; New Point ch. sab-
sch., 4 02; Oregon ch sab-sch., 6 62; Parkvill e. 7 60.
46 28
Nebraska. — Hastings — Bloomington ch. sab-sch.,
2 ; Blue Hill ch. sab-sch., 3 04; Minden ch. and sab-
sch., 3 50; Red Cloud, 3; Superior ch. sab-sch., 5.
Kearney — Central City, 6 20; Kearney, 11 06; North
Loup ch. sab-sch., 5 07. Nebraska City — Auburn ch.
sab-sch., 3 16; Beatrice, 11 55 . Blue Springs, 3 39;
Falls City, 1 50; Humboldt. 5 17. Omaha — Co-
lumbus (sab-sch., 1 46), 5 12 ; Wahoo, 2. 70 76
New Jersey.— Elizabeth— Basking Ridge ch. sab-
sch., 5; Cranford, 10; Elizabeth 1st ch. sab-sch.
Murray Missionary Association, 50; Elizabeth 2d,
45 01; Elizabeth 3d ch. sab-sch., 26 69; Plainfield
Crescent Ave., 150; Roselle, 7 13. Jersey City—
Arlington, 10 25. Monmouth — Cranbury 2d, 8; De-
lanco ch. sab-sch., 10 54; Freehold 1st ch. sab-sch.,
C. E. Hall's class, 6; Manasquan, 14 56; Manchester
ch. sab-sch., 6; Tennent (sab-sch., 7 60), 13 18.
Morris and Orange — Madison, 2 33; Morris Plains,
12 ; New Vernon ch. sab-sch., 6 31. Newark — New-
ark 2d, 13 42; Newark Central, 17 25; Newark
South Park (sab-sch., 13 83), 89 59; Newark Wood-
side ch. sab-sch., 30. New Brunswick — Bound Brook,
9; Ewing, 29 60; Princeton Witherspoon St. ch. sab-
sch., 1 85; Trenton 3d, 11 45; Trenton 5th, 5. New-
ton— Belvidere 2d ch. sab-sch., 5 18; Delaware ch.
sab-sch., 4 60 ; Stanhope, 5 34. West Jersey— Bridge-
ton 2d, 20 25; Elmer ch. sab-sch., 2 . 627 53
New York. — Albany — Carlisle ch. sab-sch., 150;
New Scotland, 6. Binghamton— Binghamton West,
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12; Conklin ch. sab-sch., 7 55; Coventry 2d ch. sab-
ecb., 8. Boston — Fall River ch. sab-sch., 3 40;
Quincy ch. sab-sch., 1 50; South Ryegate, 4. Buffalo
— Clarence, 13 15 ; East Aurora, 8. Cayuga — Auburn
2d, 12 02 ; Cayuga, 7 ; Meridian, 7 ; Port Byron, 5 ;
Weedsport, 5. . Champlain — Peru ch. sab-sch., 3.
Chemung — Watkins (sab-sch., 12 07), 35 11. Columbia
— Windham, 6 78. Genesee — Warsaw ch. and sab-sch.,
60. Genesee, Valley — Angelica ch. sab-sch., 3 37;
Olean, 15; Genesee Valley ch. sab-sch., 7. Geneva —
Canoga ch. sab-sch., 2 50 ; Oaks Corner, 8 ; Phelps,
7 06. Hudson — Cochecton, 5 ; Livingston Manor,
4 56 ; Ridgebury, 50 cts.; Rockland 2d, 1 14 ; Stony
Point, 8 05. Lyons — East Palmyra, 12 79. New York
— New York Harlem, 50 40. Niagara — Lewiston
ch. sab-sch., 8 30; Lyndonville, 8 25; Medina ch.
sab-sch., 8 68. North River — Freedom Plains, 18 05.
Otsego — Springfield ch. sab-sch., 7 50. Rochester —
Lima, 11 25; Rochester Westminster ch. sab-sch.,
20; Victor, 7. St. Lawrence — Oswegatcliie 2d, 4 95.
Steuben — Pulteney, 3. Syracuse— Jordan ch. sab-
sch., 6 04. Troy— Brunswick, 10 73 ; Troy Mt. Ida
Memorial, 7; Waterford, 3 55. Utica — Camden, 4;
New Hartford (sab-sch., 63 cts.), 3 63 ; Rome, 15 35 ;
Turin (sab-sch., 1), 3 40; Verona (sab-sch., 6 80),
12 80; Wolcott Memorial ch. sab-sch., 3. Westchester
— Greenburgh ch. sab-sch., 17 35; Hartford 1st, 44 ;
New Rochelle, 36 77 ; Rye ch. sab-sch., 8 86 ; South
Salem, 9 25; West Farms, 13; Yorktown, 8. 635 09
North Dakota. — Fargo— Fargo ch. sab-sch., 8 80.
Pembina — Grafton ch. sab-sch., 5. 13 80
Ohio. — Athens — New Plymouth ch. sab-sch., 6 90.
Bellefontaine— Bellefontaine, 88 cts. ; Belle Centre ch.
sab-sch., 6 55 ; Upper Sandusky, 5 50. Chillicothe —
Frankfort ch. sab-sch., 4; French, 2; Mt. Pleasant
ch. sab-sch., 4 10; New Petersburg ch. sab-sch., 5 12 ;
Pisgah, 5; Salem, 12 81. Cincinnati — Cincinnati
Cumminsville, 10 28; Cincinnati Mt. Auburn ch.
sab-sch., 50; Cincinnati Westminster, 10 ; Lebanon,
9 60 ; Montgomery, 8. Cleveland — Ashtabula, 6 ;
Northfield (sab-sch., 1 45), 6; Rome, 30 cts.; Wil-
loughby (sab-sch., 17), 22. Columbus— Central Col-
lege, 8 40 ; Columbus 2d ch. sab-sch., 2S 63 ; Columbus
Westminster, 10 ; Lancaster ch. sab-sch., 4 02 ; Lith-
opolis (sab-sch., 8), 12; Mifflin, 2 60. Dayton — Clif-
ton, 19 20; Dayton 4th, 11 50 ; Osborn, 15 87 ; Spring-
field 2d ch. sab-sch., 8 06; Xenia, 22 50. Huron—
Fostoria, 16 75; Norwalk, 9 11. Mahoning — Canton
ch. and Buckingham mission sab-sch., 20 10; Clark-
son, 1; Ellsworth (sab-sch., 11 80), 22 80; Middle
Sandy ch. sab-sch., 3. Marion— Iberia, 3; Mt. Gilead,
6 29; Pisgah, 2; Richwood, 2; Trenton, 5; York ch.
sab-sch., 1 50. Maumee — Tontogany, 2 25. Ports-
mouth— Eckmansville, 2 ; Mt. Leigh ch. sab-sch.,
2 70; Ripley, 8 75; Sardinia, 1 70. St. Clairsville —
Crab Apple, 9 81; Kirkwood, 17 52; Powhatan, 2.
Steubenville — Annapolis, 3 ; Beech Spring, 8; Carrol-
ton, 11 ; Cross Creek, 4 20; Two Ridges, 6; Union-
port, 2. Wooster — Belleville, 8; Berlin, 2; Freder-
icksburg ch. sab-sch., 5 ; Mt. Eaton, 3; Shreve, 4 95.
Zanesville — Coshocton (sab-sch., 8 80), 34; Granville,
9 20; Jefferson ch. sab-sch., 2; Jersey ch. sab-sch.,
42; Keene ch. sab-sch., 9; Pataskala ch. sab-sch., 4 ;
Rev. John Pitkin, 2. 616 45
Pacific. — Benicia — Petaluma ch. sab-sch., 4 ; San
Rafael, 15 50; Tomales, 5; Two Rocks ch. sab-sch.,
2 20. Los Angeles — Los Angeles 3d, 9; Orange ch.
sab-sch., 7 40. Sacramento — Carson City ch. sab-sch.,
3; Elk Grove, 2 55; Grayson, 2; Willows, 3. San
Francisco — Oakland 2d ch. sab-sch., 4; San Francisco
Olivet, 2 ; West Berkeley ch. sab-sch., 3 55. San Jos6
— Gilroy ch. sab-sch., 5 50; Los Gatos, 3; Watson-
ville, 10. 81 70
Pennsylvania. — Allegheny — Allegheny Central,
17 74; Bellevue ch. sab-sch., 5 50; Bull Creek, 3;
Emsworth, 11 85 ; Fairmount, 5 ; Hilands, 5 28 ; Ho-
boken ch. sab-sch., 5 ; Rochester ch. sab-sch., 3 ; Ta-
rentum, 8 03; West Bellevue, 7 25. Blairsville —
Beulah ch. sab-sch., 12 30; Blairsville ch. sab-sch.,
7 25; Latrobe, 10; Ligonier, 8; New Alexandria
(sab-sch., 9), 40; New Salem, 9 50; Pine Run, 20;
Verona ch. sab-sch., 14. Butler — Amity, 3 38; Fair-
view, 2 ; Karns City, 2 ; Mt. Nebo, 3 35 ; Plain Grove,
8. Carlisle — Duncannon ch. sab-sch., 8 57 ; Green-
castle, 20; Harrisburg Pine St., 107 42; Harrisburg
Westminster, 15 36; Mechanics burg, 12 16. Chester
— Berwyn Trinity, 7 ; Bryn Mawr ch. sab-sch., 31 15;
Dilworthtown, 2; Great Valley, 17 50; Kennett Sq.
ch. sab-sch., 6 ; New London, 8; Oxford 1st, 51 ; West
Grove, o. Clarion — Beech Woods, 15 40; Ridgway,
2 06; Sligo, 3; Wilcox, 2 44. Erie— Erie Park, 40;
Franklin, 17 09 ; Greenville ch. sab-sch., 13 ; Hadley,
2 13; Meadville 1st ch. sab-sch., 8 83; Oil City 1st,
19 07; Springfield ch. sab-sch., 3 14; Venango ch.
sab-sch., 3 18; Warren, 5; Wattsburg, 3 32; West-
minster, 3 50. Huntingdon — Bethany, 11 ; Lewistown
ch. sab-sch., 30; Mt. Union ch. sab-sch., 5; Newton
Hamilton ch. sab-sch., 8; Penfield (sab-sch., 2 20),
6 20 ; Shellsburg, 3 50 ; Yellow Creek, 1 05. Kittan-
ning— Elderton, 16 ; Freeport (sab-sch., 7 19), 17 69;
Indiana, 5 ; Slate Lick, 25 16 ; Srader’s Grove ch.
sab-sch., 1 44. Lackawanna — Carbondale, 60 93;
Great Bend ch. sab-sch., 19 20; Hawley ch. sab-scli.,
5 ; Herrick, 6 ; Honesdale, 8 28 ; Monroeton ch. sab-
sch., 13 ; Wilkesbarre 1st ch. South Wilkesbarre sab-
sch., 16 20; Wyalusing 1st, 6. Lehigh — Allentown
ch. sab-sch., 10 32; Bethlehem, 5; Hazleton ch. sab-
sch., 8 35; Reading 1st, 19 10. Northumberland—
Beech Creek, 2 51 ; Hartleton, 3 ; Holland Run, 2 ;
Linden, 2; Lycoming, 40; Lycoming Centre ch. sab-
sch., 6 12 ; Montoursville ch. sab-sch., 3 42 ; Muncy,
5 ; Shamokin 1st ch. sab-sch., 13 49 ; Williamsport 2d
ch. sab-sch., 10 41. Philadelphia — Philadelphia
Southwestern, 2 50; Philadelphia Tabernacle ch.
sab-sch., 44 20. Philadelphia Central — Philadelphia
Hebron Memorial, 3 17. Philadelphia North — Disston
Memorial, 3 15 ; Germantown 1st ch., from the Som-
erville mission sab-sch., 15 81; Newtown, 44 55; Port
Kennedy, 4. Pittsburgh — Bethany, 25 75; Crafton,
6; Hebron (sab-sch., 9), 22; Homestead ch. sab-sch.,
15; Mansfield, 10 12; Mingo, 10; Mt. Pisgah, 6;
Pittsburgh 1st, 126 66 ; Pittsburgh 7th, 6; Pittsburgh
East Liberty. 15; Pittsburgh Shady Side, 29 30; Rac-
coon, 40. Redstone — Dunlap’s Creek ch. sab-sch.,
13 08; Laurel Hill, 4 53; Mt. Pleasant, 9 73; Pleas-
ant Unity, 3 92; Tent, 5; West Newton, 20 13. She-
nango — Hopewell, 10 63 ; Leesburg, 5 ; Little Beaver,
2 48; Mahoning, 6; New Brighton, 13; New Castle
2d, 21; Rich Hill, 7 75. Washington— Mt. Prospect,
10 ; Upper Buffalo, 33 53 ; Wellsburg, 3 74. West-
minster— Chestnut Level, 5 65; Columbia, 10 13;
Monaghan, 4; York 1st ch., contributed by Mrs. Mary
F. Small, as the entire fulfillment of the intent of the
invalid bequest of her husband, David E. Small, dec’d,
late of York, Pa., 2000. West Virginia — Morgantown,
8 30. 3665 93
Tennessee. — Holston — Chucky Vale, 3; Mt. Leb-
anon, 3. Kingston — Cloyd’s Creek, 3 80 ; Grassy
Cove, 1 56 ; Huntsville, 5. 16 36
Wisconsin. — Chippewa — Hudson ch. sab-sch., 15.
Madison— Cottage Grove, 1 ; Reedsburg ch. sab-sch.,
4 12. Milwaukee — Beaver Dam, lu ; Delafield ch.
sab-sch., 1 ; Milwaukee Grace, 4 25 ; Oostburg, 3 ;
Stone Bank, 2. Winnebago — Oxford, 2 50 ; Stevens
Point, 13 15. 66 02
Total from churches, June, 1886 $7,213 03
MISCELLANEOUS.
Interest from J. C. Green Fund, 52 50, in-
terest from annuities, etc., 529 63=
582 13 ; J. T. Kelley, Jr.. Seneca, Md., 1 ;
Miss A. L. Ethridge, Montrose, Pa., 5 ;
S. A. White, Harmony Grove, Md., 5;
Mrs. Mary Eichbaum, West Clarksville,
N. Y., 1 ; Miss Lucy Purley, Spanish
Fork, Utah, 2; G. G. Butterfield, Tio-
nesta, Pa., 5; W. T. N. Wallace, West
Lebanon, Pa., 4; Nephi mission sab-sch.,
Utah, 2 46; East Lebanon, Pa., mission
sab-sch., 12 ; Mr. John H. Converse,
Rosemont, Pa., 20; Okmulgee sab-sch.,
Ind. Ter., 2; Harford Congregational ch.
sab-sch., Pa., 3 38; “A thank-offering,”
N. Y., 10; Mrs. M. P. Kimball, Penns-
boro’, W. Va., 5 ; “ C.,” New York, 1 660 97
Total receipts in June, 1886 $7,874 00
Total receipts from April 1, 1886 $18,365 42
S. D. POWEL, Treasurer .
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CHURCH ERECTION . [August
BOARD OF CHURCH ERECTION FUND.
REV. HENRY R. WILSON, D.D.
The death at Elizabeth, N. J., June 8, of the Rev. Dr. Wilson, for nearly twenty
years the corresponding secretary of this Board, is already known to the most of the
readers of the Record.
A faithful, devoted, valiant soldier of the cross has finished his earthly career. Dr.
Wilson was born in 1808 at Bellefonte, Pa., and was graduated at the age of twenty at
Jefferson College. After studying medicine, he entered Princeton Theological Sem-
inary, where he remained for more than two years. After his ordination in 1832, he
labored for five years among the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, as a missionary of
the American Board. In 1837, under the appointment of the Western Missionary
Society, he entered the foreign missionary field, and continued at Futtehgurh, India,
until in 1842, on account of the failure of his wife’s health, it became necessary for
him to return home. During the next twenty years, in addition to his work as pastor
in the towns of Neshaminy, Pleasant Valley and Sewicklyville, he was engaged in
teaching, and for several years was the president of a college in Springfield, 0. In
1868 he was appointed secretary of the Board of Church Extension (0. S.), and after
the reunion in 1870 he was called to the same office in the Board of Church Erection
of the united Church.
In all these positions — whether preaching the gospel to the Indians of the far West,
or holding up the cross to the Hindus of the far East; instructing in the schools of
Futtehgurh, or presiding in the schools and colleges of his native land ; fulfilling the
duties of a pastor, or aiding other pastors to build houses of worship for their people —
he was always the same efficient, patient, assiduous, consecrated man, commending
himself to all by his unflagging devotion and burning zeal.
He had certain talents that specially fitted him for the great work to which he gave
the last twenty years of his life. In his duties as secretary of this Board all his
thoughts and all his energies were centred. He was the first at the office in the morn-
ing and the last to leave it in the evening. It needed a peremptory order of the Board
to induce him to take even a day’s respite, and his success in administering the trust
committed to him is well known throughout the Church. Most emphatically was he
faithful to the end. During the last few months, although to all who met him it was
evident that he was worn out and that his end was drawing near, it was hardly possible
to restrain him from his accustomed work. Burdened with disease and affliction, with
the shadow of death upon him, he would leave his bed to come to the office; and al-
most literally is it true that he died at his post.
It is a familiar saying attributed to Whitfield that “ every man is immortal until his
work is done ;” but it seldom happens that the end of mortal life synchronizes so
exactly as in the case of Dr. Wilson with the closing up of a year’s work. With
trembling hand he wrote the last lines of his annual report to the Assembly, closed up
the year’s accounts, and went home to die. Upon the very eve of his seventy-eighth
birthday, “ after he had served his own generation by the will of God, he fell on
sleep.”
Servant of the whole Church as Dr. Wilson was, his monument remains in every
one of the hundreds of towns and villages all over our land where, built through the
aid of the Board that he represented, there stands to-day a sanctuary dedicated to the
worship of God.
Men pass away, but the work goes on. Never was the work of this Board more im-
portant or more promising than at the hour when its veteran officer was taken away
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From churches whose very existence depends upon their securing houses of worship,
letters, many of them still directed to Dr. Wilson, are daily received. Our manse work
is attracting the attention of our devoted missionary pastors, some of whom write
that they have nowhere to lay their head. These appeals must be met ; yet the Board
can only give what it first receives, and thus the earnest petition of these noble,
struggling churches is not so much to the Board as through the Board to their stronger
sister churches. If any church, accustomed to make its contribution to this Board in
July, has this year omitted it, we earnestly beg it to make good the deficiency without
delay.
The Rev. Erskine N. White, D.D., pastor of the West Twenty-third Street Church in
New York, and formerly pastor of Westminster Church in Buffalo, has been elected by
the Board as its corresponding secretary to succeed Dr. Wilson. Dr. White has ac-
cepted the appointment, and has already entered upon the duties of his office.
RECEIPTS FOR THE BOARD OF THE CHURCH ERECTION FUND IN JUNE, 1886.
Atlantic. — Atlantic — Edisto, 3 00
Baltimore. — New Castle — Pitt’s Creek, 6 55. Wash-
ington City — Washington Unity, 3 26. 9 81
Colorado. — Boulder — Valmout, 33
Columbia. — Oregon — Roseburg 1st, 3 18
Dakoia. — Aberaeen — Wilmot, 5. Southern Dakota
— Parker, 5 lu. 10 10
Illinois. — Chicago — Wilmington 1st, 2 80. Mat-
toon — Prairie Bird, 10 ; Tower Hill, 8. Schuyler —
Hersinau, 3; Monmouth, 28 40. Springfield — Pisgab,
1 90; Unity, 75 cts. 54 85
Indiana. — Fort Wayne — Huntington, 4. Indianap-
olis— Southport, 2 40. White Water — College Corner,
2; Liberty, 3; Rising Sun, 2. 13 40
Iowa. — Cedar Rapids — Cedar Rapids 1st, add’l, 5.
Dubuque — Lansing Her., 3. Iowa— Chequest, 2 ; Mt.
Pleasant Her., 9. Iowa City — Keota, 5 ; sugar Creek,
2. Waterloo — Kamrar Ger., 3 25. 29 25
Kansas. — Emporia — Eldorado, 14 08
Kentucky. — Ebenezer — Sharpsburg, 7 00
Michigan. — Detroit — Detroit Memorial, 10 13.
Monroe — Adrian 1st, 50. 60 13
Minnesota. — Mankato — Westminster, 12 81. Red
River — Angus, 3. St. Paul — Minneapolis Bethlehem,
2 73. 18 54
Missouri. — Ozark — Webb City, 2 00
Nebraska. — Kearney — Myra Valley Wilson Me-
morial, 3 03; North Loup, 6 30. Nebraska City —
Sterling 1st, 5. 15 23
Hew Jersey. — Elizabeth — New Providence, 10;
Plainfield Crescent Ave., 200 ; Roselle, 14 14. Jersey
City — Paterson Elm lit. Ger., 8 30. Monmouth —
Lakewood, 6 70. Morris and Orange — East Orange
1st, 156 57 ; Madison, 6 20; Morris Plains, 12; Mor-
ristown South Jit., 75 53; Orange 2d, 65. Newark —
Newark 2d, 22 36; Newark South Park, 56 66. New
Brunswick — New Brunswick 1st, 58 69; Trenton
Prospect St., 46 28. Newton — Belvidere 1st, 25;
Bloomsbury 1st, 9 48; Hackettstown, 25; Muscouet-
coug Valley, 7. 8o4 91
New York. — Albany — Albany 6th, 2; Charlton,
6 45; Corinth, 2; Rockwell Pails, 8. Boston — New-
buryport 1st, 24; Newburyport zd, 50. Columbia —
Catskill, 60 32. Genesee— Pike, 2. Geneva — Geneva
1st, 29 57; Seneca, 26 35. Hudson — Ridgebury, 50
cts.; Stony Point, 12. Long Island — Mattituck, 2;
Setauket, 41. North River — Amenia South, 22 50.
Rochester — Lima, 18; Sweden, 10; Wheatland, 12.
St. Lawrence — Cape Vincent, 5. Syracuse — Amboy,
6. Troy — Salem, 32 ; Waterford, 7 09. Westchester —
West Farms, 2. 381 08
Northern Dakota. — Bismarck — Sterling, 1 00
Ohio. — Belief ontaine — Bellefontaine 1st, 2 30. Cin-
cinnati— Avondale, 45 53; Cincinnati 1st, 25; Cincin-
nati Westminster, 50. Cleveland — Rome, 80 cts.
Dayton — Osborn, 2 ; Springfield 1st, 56. Mahoning —
Youngstown 1st, 42 71. Steubenville — Long’s Run,
4 52. Zanesville — Prazeysburgli, 1 50; Pataskala, 7 ;
Utica, 9. 246 36
Pacific. — Los Angeles — San Buenaventura, 9. San
Jos6 — Livermore, 4 80 ; Los Gatos, 13. 26 80
Pennsylvania. — Blairsville — Latrobe, 12. Butler —
Allegheny, 1 ; Butler, 22. Chester — Dilworthtown,
2; New London, 12. Clarion — Clarion, 10 23. Erie
— Cambridge, 8; Gravel Run, 7; Jamestown 1st,
3 90; Meadville 1st, 6. Huntingdon — Bethel, 1 90;
Phillipsburgh, 23 50. Kittanning — Kittanning 1st,
70 16; Rural Valley (including sab-sch.), 6. Lehigh
— Bethlehem 1st, 5. Northuinberland — Williamsport
2d sab-sch., 31 94. Philadelphia — Philadelphia Cal-
vary, 69 27. Philadelphia Central — Philadelphia Co-
liocksink, 52 52; Philadelphia Hebron Memorial,
3 22. Pittsburgh — Centre, 12 96; Pittsburgh 2d,
17 06 ; Pittsburgh East Liberty, 30 ; Pittsburgh
Shady Side, 52 55. Redstone — George’s Creek, 2; Re-
hoboth, 9 60. Shenango — Leesburgh, 6; Rich Hill,
3 30. Washington — Allen Grove, 1; East Buffalo,
10 70. 492 81
Tennessee. — Union — Knoxville 2d, 1 00
Utah. — Montana— Timberline, 2. Utah — Evans-
ton, 3. 5 00
Wisconsin. — Madison — Cottage Grove, 2 00
Total church collections $2,201 86
other contributions.
C. W. McGonnigal, Mt. Pleasant, 0., 25;
Albert H. Porter, Niagara Palls, N. Y.,
100; “Anon.,” Easton, Pa., 1; A thank-
offering, Presbytery of Nassau, 10; Mrs.
M. P. Kimball, Pennsboro’, YV. Va., 5;
C., N. Y., 3 ; Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife,
1 29 145 29
2,347 15
miscellaneous.
Interest on Investments, 1162 50 ; Insur-
ance premiums collected, 133 23; Re-
turned by Churches (Supplementary
Fund, 25, Stuart Fund, 15), 40; Partial
loss collected from Insurance Co., 50 ;
Sale of Church, 400; Sale of Plans, 9 50. 1,795 23
8PECIAL DONATIONS.
Churches. — Baltimore 1st, 50; Baltimore
Boundary Ave., 10 ; Baltimore Madison
St., 5; New Windsor, Baltimore Presby-
tery, 10 ; Govane Chapel, Baltimore Pres-
bytery, 10; Havre de Grace, Baltimore
Presbytery, 5 ; Lyons, Cedar Rapids Pres-
bytery, 8; Philadelphia Temple, 30 128 00
Other Sources. — Through Home Board,
600; Rev. J. P. Carter, Baltimore, 5 605 00
(Receipts for other Boards paid over, 11.)
Total net receipts in June, 1886 §4,875 38
ADAM CAMPBELL, Treasurer ,
P. O. Box 2010. 23 Centre St , N. Y.
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MINISTERIAL RELIEF.
BOARD OF RELIEF.
[August,
THE SECRETARY’S ADDRESS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
( From the Minneapolis Tribune , Monday , May 24, 1886.)
Dr. Cattell began by saying that while in his address at the last General Assembly he
had spoken of the principles upon which the Board of Relief was founded and of the
methods of its administration, his present purpose was neither argument nor exposi-
tion. He would refer to a few matters of practical interest suggested by the experi-
ence of the past year.
Two facts became more and more clear to him as he went on with his work: First,
that there is no one of the agencies of the Church to which thd‘ people contribute
more cordially than to the Board of Relief when they know about it; the other is that
there is scarcely one of the Boards about which they know so little , mainly due, he
thought, to the delicacy most pastors feel in urging upon their congregations the ob-
ligations of the Church to her disabled ministers. It is usual to hear sermons on the
duty of the Church through its various Boards to secure a thoroughly-trained minis-
try, to aid in building houses of worship, to publish and circulate an evangelical lit-
erature, and to press forward its grand mission work at home and abroad; but it is
rare for the people to be told from the pulpit, plainly and forcibly, that when a man
turns away from all money-getting occupations or professions and serves the Church
at a salary barely sufficient for his maintenance, he has a just and righteous claim
upon the Church for support when he breaks down in its service, or becomes too
old for it: — a claim, he contended, that was not one for charity or alms, but for the
payment, in part, of a just debt.
He gave several instances of this exceptional ignorance as to the Board of Relief
among well-informed Presbyterians, quoting from letters and from the speeches of
the elders at the last General Assembly, nearly all of whom confessed and deplored
their “vague and indistinct knowledge" of the worthiness and importance of the
cause. The case was aptly stated by one of them who had “ supposed that being the
Lord’s prophets, ministers, when they were laid aside from active duties, would still
be permitted to drink from the brook and that Elijah’s ravens would come to feed
them.” But when he fully realized that the ravens had gone entirely out of the bus-
iness and that the Lord expected His people to take it up, this good elder had made it
his duty to open the eyes of others to this truth, and through his efforts the contri-
butions of his Presbytery had been increased more than fifty per cent, in the past year.
“ And who can tell,” he added, “ what the increase will be next year?”
“ Wherever the people fully understand what the Church has undertaken to do
through the Board of Relief for its sick and aged servants they hasten, gladly and
with full hands, to its treasury,” continued Dr. Cattell ; “ but I must confess that I
did not know, until I had fully entered upon my work, how slowly the light upon this
subject travels. I was so much encouraged by the interest and enthusiasm awakened
at the last meeting of the Assembly that I went home in the confident expectation of
at least a speedy resumption of payments in full. For five months, as yon know —
five long months — the Board had made a uniform reduction of one-quarter in all its
appropriations. I could not believe it possible that this could continue another
month. I knew that the Presbyterian Church was abundantly able to pay the debts
of its Mission Boards, and even to enlarge its grand missionary work and also to fully
discharge its sacred obligations to the blessed men who bad broken down in the work
and who, in a special sense, are the wards of the whole Church. In fact, I had hopes
of an immediate advance in the altogether inadequate sums sent to our sick and aged
brethren. It was therefore with a heavy heart I stood for months beside our still im-
poverished treasury, daily reading letters from hundreds of suffering families asking
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in vain even for their reduced remittances. In the middle of August there was not
one cent in the treasury for the appropriations due that month, and $3000 yet due
upon the appropriations for July!” Referring to the many letters received during
that time from his suffering brethren asking when the long-delayed and still reduced
remittances would be sent, Dr. Cattell said : “ One morning (it was August 24) I went
to my office really dreading to read my letters, and the first one I opened contained a
check from an anonymous donor for the entire three thousand dollars due on the July
appropriation! The whole force of the office was set to work, and before night this
great sum of money, divided into many small amounts, was speeding its way to every
part of the land to bring the long-looked- for relief to those wearied servants of the
Church in their homes of suffering and want.”
From that memorable day matters began to improve, and he referred to the many
letters of sympathy and encouragement that now came. But occasionally there were
letters that gave him pain ; as when a pastor singled out some one beneficiary whom
he did not regard as needing or deserving help and told the Secretary he could not
therefore urge his people to contribute anything for the hundreds who did ! Dr. Cat-
tell was sure these brethren’s sermons had better logic in them than their letters.
“ If there are any upon our Roll,” said he, “ who have no claim upon the Church, it
is the Presbyteries recommending them which ought to suffer, and not the blessed men
who do have a just and righteous claim. But there are always some pastors who
scold the few who come to prayer-meeting, because the others stay away : they are
in the habit of beating the wrong people !”
Referring to what had been done for the Board by many pastors during the last
year, he read a letter from one of them who sent his own contribution to be credited to his
church , because “ the elders had not thought best to have the cause presented to the
congregation.” Dr. Cattell added, “ this fairly represents what the pastors are doing for
the Board, even if they do not say as much for it as many think they should. Even
missionaries have sent their personal contributions. Indeed if all the people of God
would give to this Board in proportion to their means as liberally as missionaries
and pastors give in proportion to theirs, our treasury would overflow.”
He then referred at some length to the remarkable movement on the part of the el-
ders, inaugurated at the last General Assembly, from which he augured the happiest
results. True, in his frequent conferences with them he met a few like the elders al-
ready mentioned, who for local reasons “thought it best not to have the cause pre-
sented to the congregation ;” and now and then he met during the year one who still
wanted to know “ why Presbyterian ministers do not take care of themselves and
their families like other people !” “ To these,” said the Doctor with emphasis, “ I
always answered, ‘ They generally do /’ The wonder is that there are not more of them
who need help in sickness and old age, considering the small average salary paid to
the Presbyterian minister, and the demands made upon him by his position in society
— demands out of all proportion to his slender income.” But, in the main, he had
found the elders in the heartiest sympathy with this sacred cause — far ahead, indeed,
of the pastors in outspoken advocacy of the righteous claim upon the Church of her
sick and aged servants, and of the families left destitute by their death.
Referring to what had been done in various conventions of elders held in widely-
distant parts of the country, notably those of the Synod of Pennsylvania and at St.
Louis, he quoted the action taken by the elders of the Synod of Indiana on behalf of
the Permanent Fund, adding that, “ if every synod would appoint such a committee,
the one hundred thousand dollars which the elders of the last Assembly determined
to raise annually for this fund (but of which not quite two thousand came to our
treasury last year) would be raised beyond a doubt.”
Thanking the elders for the noble work they had done during the year, the Doctor
then spoke of what had been done by the women of the Church, and also by the Sun-
day-schools, emphasizing the fact that to interest the young in the Board of Relief
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was not only training them up in Christ-like sympathy with the sick and poor, but it
would do much in bringing back that respect for ministers which is not as prominent
a characteristic of this generation as of the last. “ Tell them,” said he, “ who these
poor are for whom the Board of Relief is caring, and why they are poor ; explain the
services they have rendered to the Church and what they deserve in return from the
Church, and you will exalt the ministerial office in their estimation, while you elevate
your Board of Relief above the plane of mere general benevolence, or even of Chris-
tian charity, to that higher position it deserves as the agency by which the Church
pays a just and righteous debt to its faithful and honored servants.”
From all this awakened interest in the work of the Board, it resulted that during
September and October they were able to pay promptly the reduced remittances, and
from November to pay them in full; and the close of the fiscal year found the Board
with $26,408.83 on hand. Such a balance had not been left for many years, but un-
happily it had been secured by “ the reduction.” “ I must confess,” said Dr. Cattell,
“ that many a time it seemed to me like the failure to pay a just and honest debt —
every dollar of which had been earned by faithful service to the Church.” The Board,
grateful that they were now in a position to pay this debt, ordered it to be done, the
aggregate amounting to $20,723.31.
The Doctor feelingly described the meeting at which this was done, and the joy it
was to him and his colleagues to read the letters that came back from these wards of
the Church at this unexpected but welcome restitution. A pastor, to whom was sent
the treasurer’s check for one of these venerable men — a father in Israel, ninety-six
years old — wrote that he wished Dr. Cattell could have been present himself to deliver
the check. As the old man held it in his trembling hand, he turned and said to his
widowed daughter, with whom he lived — herself poor — “ My daughter, shall we ever
distrust God? Surely he will always provide!”
But there were some to whom this act of justice came too late — those whose hands
could sign no receipt, for they were folded upon pulseless bosoms. Dr. Cattell recalled
one of the most pathetic of these cases. A venerable patriarch of the Church, who
was zealous in its service even to the end of his life, received annually $300 for the
support of himself and his aged wife — last year, owing to the reduction, only $225.
A letter, written by the trembling hand of his wife, implored the Doctor, if it were
possible, to send the twenty-five per cent, that had been withheld. “ My husband,”
she wrote, “ is ninety years old. lie now has to be taken care of like a child. I am
seventy-four, and my health is very poor. We are in great need. We are three months
behind on the rent. If you can, do help us, for I do not know which way to turn.
Old age is so helpless , so dependent /” Five days later a second letter came. The land-
lord had given them notice to leave their humble home. A special donation from the
Board averted this catastrophe ; but a few weeks later came a third letter, written by
the same trembling hand. “ The dear old good man is safe,” it said. “ He has gone
up higher, where there is no more sorrow, no more old age to be laid aside.” In her
first letter she had said, “He has to be taken care of like a child.” Now she adds,
“ He was so patient, so thankful for everything that was done for him — I do miss the
care of him so much!” Sadder, perhaps, than even this was the statement in a letter
from an aged minister, who, in returning his thanks for this restitution, said, “A for-
mer cut down, I think, caused the death of my wife. We had quite enough to bear
before ; but when that came she soon sunk under it.”
God’s people had done well in enabling the Board to restore the amount of the re-
duction which had caused so much suffering in all these homes of his ministers ; but,
added the Doctor, “ The injustice that was done to those who died before the day of
restitution can never be repaired. My heart bleeds when I think how many of these
were aged. Oh that they could have been spared this last sorrow ! And who of us
will not join in the prayer, and — what will better show our sincerity — join with heart
and hand in the effort that the darkened homes of our aged, dependent brethren shall
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never again grow darker with the announcement of a reduction in the slender remit-
tances which a great and wealthy Church promised them, and ought to be only too
glad to send them ?
“ I know there are other ministers beside the aged who need help. Last year, in
the vestibule of the church in which the Assembly met, a young brother said to me
of all the Boards of the Church this lay most upon his heart. I confess that I was
thinking of these aged men upon our Roll, and I thanked him all the more for his
special interest in our sacred work as it would be many years before he could have
any personal interest in its beneficent aims. “No! no!” he replied with a voice
choked with emotion — “I have already experienced it!” And then he told me, as
the tears coursed down his manly cheeks, of his being stricken down a few years ago
by sudden illness, of his own sufferings and those of his devoted wife and children,
and how, through the timely aid of the Board, he was restored to the work he loved
so well, and then of the gladness and joy that came once more to his humble home.
Yes, it is hard when a pastor in his prime is thus stricken down : it is hard for him to
be laid aside from the work to which he has consecrated his life ; hard to look upon
the faces of wife and children who are suffering with him perhaps for the very neces-
sities of life. But he has yet hope for the coming years ; and very blessed have been
the ministrations of this Board of Relief which has restored to usefulness and happi-
ness so many pastors stricken down in the midst of their years. But oh, brethren,
it is harder when the minister comes, in poverty, to that old age 1 so helpless , so depend-
ent,' when there is for him only the service of those ‘ who stand and wait.’
“ I referred at Cincinnati to the fact — the strange, sad fact — that old age, which in
other positions seems to add with its ripe experience to the value of a man’s services,
has come almost to be regarded as a disqualification for the pastorate a little short of
crime ! On a recent visit to St. Louis I was told, by one of the pastors, of a minister
whom he knew well — one grown old in the service of the Church. His people told
him they needed the services of a younger man, and though he had been able to lay
up nothing for his old age, they cast him out without any provision for his support!
The veteran meekly bowed his head at the announcement ; he loved his people and
his work, and had no word of protest or reproach, but his heart was broken. A few
days afterwards he was found sitting in his favorite place of meditation, in the grove
near the parsonage, his head leaning against a tree : he was dead ! Had this vener-
able man lingered on in bis helpless and dependent old age, should it not be a privi-
lege and a joy — more even than a sacred duty — for the Church of Christ to care that
his modest wants were all supplied? And there are many such : fathers and brethren,
will you not see to it that through the beneficent agency of this Board their declining
years may be free from hard and cruel want ?”
PERTH AMBOY,
( From the Baltimore Presbyterian Observer.)
Presbyterians who visit the New Jersey coast during their summer jaunts should visit
the Ministers’ House at Perth Amboy. This fine old mansion, which was occupied in
colonial days by the governors of New Jersey, is situated in a natural grove of about
seven acres. It is a resort for Presbyterian ministers who have been disabled by illness
or age. The property was the gift of Dr. Bruen to “ The Presbyterian Board of Relief for
Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers,” and is supported
by annual collections from the churches. It ought to be endowed, for every dollar of
the collections for the Board of Relief is needed for the families upon the Rolls of
the society. Here is an opportunity for some person of wealth who is disposed to do
a noble deed. A French lady has given 300,000 francs ($52,000) to the Caisse de Re-
trace as a retiring fund for superannuated Protestant ministers. Deacon Nugent, of
Germantown, Pa., has bequeathed nearly $300,000 for the establishment of a home
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for Baptist ministers. Among the scores of Presbyterian millionaires in the United
States of America, is there not one that will set apart a portion of his wealth for the
relief of men who have given their lives to the poorly-paid service of the Church and
are now, in sickness and in old age, deprived of all the luxuries, and hard pressed for
the necessaries and comforts, of life ? If any reader of these lines should feel disposed
to honor God by thus providing for His disabled ministers, let him correspond with
the Secretary of the Board, the Rev. William C. Cattell, D.D.
RECEIPTS FOR BOARD OF RELIEF IN JUNE, 1886.
Baltimore. — Washington Oity — Lewinsville, Mrs.
Gen. Dunn, 50 00
Colorado. — Boulder— Valmont, 37
Illinois. — Alton— Sparta 1st, 23 05. Freeport —
Harvard, 3 54; Winnebago 1st, 7. Springfield — Pis-
gah, 95 cts. ; Unity, 37 cts. 34 91
Indiana. — Fort Wayne— Huntington, 7 10. Logans-
port— Monticello, 26 44. White Water — College Cor-
ner, 3 ; Liberty, 7. 43 54
Iowa. — Iowa Oity — Sugar Creek, 2 00
Kansas. — Emporia — Davis Co. 2d, 17. Highland —
Blue Rapids 1st, 12. Solomon — Minneapolis 1st, 40 34.
69 34.
Michigan. — Grand Rapids — Montague 1st, 10.
Kalamazoo — Niles, 35 40. Saginaw— X assar, 2 60.
48 00
Minnesota. — St. Paul— East St. Paul, 10; Minne-
apolis Bethlehem, 2 55. 12 55
Missouri. — Osage — Jefferson City, 3 20. Ozark —
White Oak, 4 57. 7 77
Nebraska. — Hastings — Minden, 1 50
New Jersey.— Elizabeth — Roselle, 10 32. Mon-
mouth— Allentown, 20. Morris and Orange — Madi-
son, 89 37 ; Orange 2d (Brick), for Perth Amboy,
20 55 ; Orange Central, 100. Newark — Newark 2d,
13 42; Newark Central, 40; Newark Roseville,
223 11. New Brunswick — Pennington, sp., 40;
Trenton 1st (including 100 sp.), 416 50; Trenton
Prospect St., 44 71. Newton — Belvidere 1st, 20 ; Mus-
conetcong Valley, 10. 1047 98
New York. — Albany — Albany 2d, 80 75; Albany
West End, 10; Amsterdam 2d, 35; West Milton, 2 09.
Brooklyn — Edgewater 1st, additional, 6 46 ; W. New
Brighton Calvary, 18 07. Geneva — Penn Yan 1st, 42.
Hudson — Ridgebury, 1. Nassau — Smithtown, 10.
New York — New York 1st, additional (including 75
from two members), 1075 ; New York Memorial, 162 47 ;
New York, 10 50; New York Spring St., 53; New
York West, 1003 59. Niagara — Knowlesville, 9 50.
Otsego— Gilbertsville, 32; Oneonta, 10. Rochester —
Caledonia 1st, 39; Pittsford 1st, 11; Rochester Me-
morial, 15. St. Lawrence — Watertown 1st, 99 06.
Syracuse— Amboy, 19 ; Elbridge 1st Congl., 21. Troy
— Waterford, 126 99. Utica — Clayville, 5; Utica
Bethany, 44 38. 2941 86
Ohio. — Bellefontaine — Bellefontaine 1st, 2 60. Cin-
cinnati— Cincinnati 1st, 15; Cincinnati Westminster,
50. Cleveland — Rome, 90 cts. Dayton — Osborne, 1.
Mahoning — Alliance Westminster, 6 34; Kinsman, 6.
Maumee — Tontogany, 2 60. St. Clairsville — New
Athens, 9 61. 94 05
Pacific. — Benicia — Healdsburgh, per students and
teachers, 35 ; Two Rocks, 9. Los Angeles — San Bue-
naventura, 8 ; Santa Ana, 10 75 ; Tustin City, 6 30.
Sacramento— Carson City, 6 50; Grayson, 3 50; Tracy,
1. 80 05
Pennsylvania. — Allegheny — Bridgewater, 9. Blairs-
ville — Latrobe, 12. Butler — Butler, 22. Carlisle — Har-
risburg Pine st. sab-sch. class, 5; Newport, 13 75.
Chestei — Dihvorthtown, 3. Clarion — Punxsutawney
1st, 6. Erie — Erie Park, “L. and F.,” 20. Lacka-
wanna— Great Bend 1st, 8 68; Langclyffe, 23. Lehigh
— Bethlehem 1st, 5; Catasauqua 1st, Ladies’ Assoc.,
50 ; Pottsville 1st, 42 87. Northumberland — Lewis-
burgh, 71 75 ; Williamsport 2d sab-sch., 21 74. Pitts-
burgh— Homestead, 10; Pittsburgh 1st, 50 ; Pittsburgh
2d, 19 20; Pittsburgh East Liberty, 38; Pittsburgh
Shady Side, 34 50. Shenango — Mahoning, thank-of-
fering from member, 12; Unity, 16. Westminster —
Leacock, 29 89. West Virginia — French Creek, 10 70 ;
Kanawha, 11. 545 08
Tennessee. — Kingston — Bethany, 1 00
Utah. — Montana— Butte City, 8 50
Wisconsin. — Milwaukee — Cambridge, 6. Winnebago
— Fond du Lac (including 5 from sab-sch.), 20. Madi-
son— Cottage Grove, 2. 28 00
From the churches $5,016 5(j
MISCELLANEOUS.
Guest-money at Perth Amboy, N. J.,23 50;
Mrs. E. K. Simeral, 111., 2 ; “Cash,” 5;
Guest-money for Perth Amboy, 15; Rev.
J. G. Venable and wife, Kan., 5 ; C. S. Tyler,
N. J., 3; “ M. L. S.” 500; Cash, 2 ; Rev.
E. H. Snowden, Pa., 1 ; Albert H. Porter,
N. Y., 100; Rev. S. J. Wilson, “per Pres-
byterian,” 2 85; Cash, “per Presby-
terian,” 1 ; Rev. C. W. Anthony, Minn.,
5 ; Miss Mary Vance, Pa., 5 ; H. A. Allen,
N. Y., 10; Rev. John Pitkin, 2; “ W.
G.,” per Presbyterian, 3 ; C. F. Haseltine,
Pa., 12 50; J. Sibley, Pa.. 125; Mrs. John
Kidd, 111., 5; Rev. John Donaldson, Mo.,
1; “Sympathy,” 20; “Friend,” sp., 5;
“In His Name,” Phila., 10; Rev. A.
Crocker, N. Y., 7 ; W. R. Murphy, Pa.,
25; “ E. L. L.,” Phila., 50; Receipts for
“Why,” per B. B., 20; S. Putnam, N. Y.,
5; “Friend of the cause,” Wis., 5; Mrs.
N. T. Lowry, thank-offering, 1; E. I.
Carrington, Mich., 1; Guest-money,
Perth Amboy, 20 ; Rev. G. S. Corwin, N.
J., 50; A. D. Sturges, N. Y., 10; Mrs.
John Keeler, N. Y., 10; “M. B. Mcl.,
Newark, N. J., 5 ; Mrs. A. F. Sahler, N.
Y., 25; Chas. M. Earle, N. Y., 15; “A
thank-offering,” N. Y., 10; “C., N. Y.”
4 ; Mrs. M. P. Kimball, W. Va., 5 ; Rev.
W. L. Tarbet and wife, 65 cts. ; Anony-
mous, Lake George, N. Y., 10; Jas. S.
Kuhn, Pa., 25; Friends, per Mrs. S. Car-
ver, Warren, Pa., 20; “L. H.” and “ E.
D. H.,” per Presbyterian, sp., 10 ; “ W.,”
Pa., 2; Mrs. C. B. McKinney, N. Y.,
104 75 ; Mrs. E. O. Conger and Mrs. S.
B. Van Amringe, N. Y., 10; “M.,” Balt.
Observer, 5 ; Anonymous, L. I., 10 ; F.
House, R. I., 1 ; J. H. Winters, O., 100;
“ One who feels for the sorrows of aged
ministers,” 1 ; I. G. Gordon, 10.
From Individuals 1,441 25
From Interest on Permanent Fund 1,562 50
From Interest on Bank Deposits 182 17
For current use $8,202 42
permanent fund.
{Interest only used.)
Legacy of Maria Robert, late of Mastic,
L. 1 500 00
Donation of Rev. Joseph Platt, of Kansas
City, Mo. (conditional), 1,000 00
Total receipts in June, 1886 $9,702 42
Total receipts for current use since April
1, 1886 $17,925 36
W. W. HEBERTON, Treasurer.
Office, 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Secretary, Rev. William C. Cattell, D.D.,1
Treasurer , Rev. William W. Heberton. J
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THE ACTION OF THE ASSEMBLY.
The Standing Committee on Freedmen respectfully submit the fol-
lowing report :
There have been placed in our hands the Twenty-first Annual Report
of the Board of Missions for Freedmen and the Minutes of the Board
for the past year. Both these are most interesting reading, and have
been thoroughly examined. They suggest much more which would be
deeply instructive to the Assembly than can be presented in a report
which from its very nature must be brief.
If we are guided to say just the things which will deepen interest and
awaken greater effort in this noble cause, our object will be attained.
We are brought by the report of this Board face to face with seven
million souls. Think of their history, of the avarice that brought them
to this land, of the chains of abject slavery that bound them for two
hundred and fifty years, of the burdens they carried and the crosses they
bore, of the much tribulation through which they came before the thresh-
old of liberty was reached. Hear them sing of their deliverance, as Israel
sung when released from the hand of the oppressor. Hear them plead-
ing now for the gospel, for Christian homes and emancipation from ignor-
ance and from sin. And think how all this touches the heart of him who
when he saw the multitudes was moved with compassion on them because
they fainted, and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd.
Estimate, if you can, the result to the social, political and material inter-
ests of our country which would follow the education and evangelization
of these seven million souls. To say nothing of the honor of Christ and
the advancement of his kingdom, would not the elevation of this great
body of people, in our very midst and a part of our nation, do much to
settle the questions of peace and order among the working classes ? Such
thoughts suggest the dignity and magnitude of the interests committed
to this Board.
The next thought suggested in reading the report for the past year is
the need of an awakening among our churches upon this subject. Our
Church has not been indifferent to the claims of the Freedmen. She
was among the first to hear their cry and to undertake their education
and evangelization. Much has been accomplished. There is abundant
evidence that the efforts of our Board have been recognized by a gracious
God. We see much to cheer, to encourage and to awaken devout thanks-
giving. But the Church has only begun to grasp the magnitude of her
undertaking in this great field ripe for the harvest. The unoccupied
districts of the South, the hundreds of thousands who can neither read
nor write, the overcrowded schools, the great need of endowment for the
institutions of learning already established, the touching appeals for
teachers and missionaries which cannot be answered, the difficulty which
the Board experiences in supplying funds to hold the work in hand, the
3387 churches that did not contribute a cent to this cause last year, and
the debt of $6000 with which the Board closes the year, tell us plainly
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that the Church is not awake to her duty to the Freedmen. Here is
work for every pastor and every elder in this Assembly. Here is new
business for some of our presbyteries. The people need instruction
upon this subject. Let us see to it that this instruction be given. Is
not this a subject for conversation, for prayer and for at least one ser-
mon a year ?
The report presents a most interesting statement of the work now in
the hands of the Board. The entire working force numbers 266, an
increase of 20 over last year. Of these 106 are ordained ministers, 1
is a licentiate, 14 are catechists and 95 are teachers. There are 202
churches, 12 of which were organized this year; 13,754 communicants,
1680 of whom were added this year; 201 Sabbath-schools, with 14,563
scholars, and 89 day-schools, instructing 9436 pupils. This statement
shows a net increase for the year of 4 churches, 7 schools, 12 day-
schools, 2 catechists, 18 teachers, 2382 communicants, 1114 Sunday-
schools, and 690 day-school pupils. In this increase an important fact
is to be noticed. The purging of the rolls of the churches and the exer-
cise of discipline made last year’s report show a decrease in the com-
municants of the churches. It appears from the report that 500 of the
delinquents have returned to their place in the church.
Time does not permit us to speak at length of our established institu-
tions. The interests of Biddle University have been harmonized, and
its future is promising. Too much cannot be said in favor of the work
undertaken by this university. It is a source of power beyond our abil-
ity to estimate. Scotia Seminary is doing a noble work. The same
may be said of Wallingford Academy and Brainerd and Fairfield
Institutes.
The report of the financial condition of the Board shows that its re-
sources are entirely inadequate for the work committed to its care. The
offerings have during twenty years increased from $10,000 to $91,500.
But the demands of the field have much more rapidly increased. The
debt of $6000 with which the year closes only testifies to the compar-
ative unfaithfulness of the Church and to the imperative demands of
the great interests of the Freedmen. The treasurer’s report shows that
the actual receipts for the year, from all sources, have been $113,918.52 ;
the expenditures, $118,459.25 ; and that the permanent fund has reached
$19,120. This is a gain of $1402.34 in the income of the Board, and an
increase of $8880 in the permanent fund. A view of the entire report
shows a most encouraging advance in the work. It is being carried for-
ward in the spirit with which it was begun more than twenty years ago.
Higher education is given wherever this is practicable and profitable.
Great effort is made to instruct all in the Scriptures and our Shorter
Catechism. The education in all cases is distinctively Christian. Con-
stant effort is made to establish Christian homes. The women of the
Church have come to the front in this effort. The increase in their offer-
ings from $3000 last year to almost $8000 this year is a small part of
what our Christian women have done for this great cause. That noble,
devoted woman, Mrs. Mary E. Allen, whom God has so suddenly taken
from us, has touched the chord of loving sympathy in thousands of
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hearts, and willing hands from our northern homes of wealth and luxury
are opening to bless their lowly sisters of the South. The Mary Allen
Seminary in Texas has just been founded in the midst of 196,380 negro
women, 140,285 of whom are illiterate. Through the eloquent lips of
the woman whose name it bears, God has founded this school to educate
Christian wives and mothers. May he endow it by the sadder and more
pathetic eloquence of her death ; for she being dead yet speaketh.
In view of what has been accomplished and of the claims of the Freed-
men upon our Church, it is recommended —
1. That the Board be commended for its faithful discharge of duty,
that the minutes of the last year be approved, and that the Board be
encouraged to continue its work upon the present plan of operation.
2. That this Assembly record its high appreciation of the work of the
late Mrs. Mary E. Allen, beloved wife of our Secretary, in behalf of this
Board, and extend to him in his great sorrow most loving sympathy.
3. That we commend to all our churches the Woman’s Department
for Freedmen, under the Women’s Executive Committee of Home Mis-
sions.
4. That all pastors be urged to instruct their congregations in the
work among the Freedmen, and appeal to them for offerings to this
cause.
5. That the Board be urged to persevere in its efforts to secure the
co-operation of the trustees of Lincoln University in our common work
in behalf of colored men.
6. That E. E. Swift, D.D., James Allison, D.D., B. B. Warfield,
D.D., James B. Lyon, Esq., and Robert C. Totten, Esq., whose terms
of service expire with this Assembly, be re-elected for the term of three
years. H. 0. Gibbons, Chairman.
RECEIPTS FOR FREEDMEN IN JUNE, 1S86.
Colorado. — Boulder — Valmont, 20 cts.
I: linois. — Mattoon— Tuscola, by Mrs. Ammon, M.
I A. Sem., 5. Springfield — Pisgah, 2 83; Unity, 1 12;
Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife, 1 94.
Indiana. — New Albany — New Philadelphia, 1 10.
I White Water — College Corner, 4 02 ; Liberty, 3 ; Ris-
ing Sun, 2.
Iowa. — Cedar Rapids — Mt. Vernon, 18 15. Des
Movies— Colfax, 2 50.
Michigan. — Detroit — Milan, 4; Detroit Memorial,
! 6 33. Saginaw — East Saginaw Washington Ave., 10.
Minnesota. — Red River — Angus, 3. St. Paul —
i Minneapolis Bethlehem, 2 32; St. Paul East, 10.
j Winona — Winona 1st, by Mrs. Moffat, 5.
New Jerset. — Elizabeth — Roselle, 12 13. Morris
I and Orange — Madison, 3 87 ; Morristown, 93 83 ;
Mendham 1st, 32 46. Newton — Belvidere 1st, 20.
New York. — Albany — Amsterdam 2d, 5; Kings-
boro’, 5 35. Brooklyn — Edgewater 1st sab-sch., 25.
j Hudson — Ridgway, 1 ; LiviDgston Manor sab-sch.,
I 2 30. New York — New York 1st, 700; New York
Westminster, 19 02; Madison Sq., 90; 4th, 40 19.
j Steuben — Woodhull, 3. Troy — Waterford, 57 64.
Utica — Camden 1st, 7. Westchester — West Farms, 2 ;
j Pound Ridge, 16.
Ohio. — Belief ontaine — Bellefontaine 1st, 1 44. Cin-
cinnati — Cincinnati 2d, 97 42 ; Westminster, 50.
I Cleveland — Wilson Ave., 6; Rome, 50 cts. Columbus
— Lower Liberty, 5. Zanesville — Brownsville Chil-
dren’s Mission Band, 5.
Pacific. — Los Angeles — Los Angeles 3d, 4 60; San
Buenaventura, 7.
Pennsylvania. — Butler — Karns City, 3. Clarion —
Mt. Tabor, 2 55; Mill Creek, 1 60. Lackawanna —
Ashley, 10. Lehigh — Bethlehem, 5. Northumberland
— Williamsport 2d sab-sch., 49 08. Pittsburgh —
Shady Side, 50 ; East Liberty, 57. Shenango — Mahon-
ing, by Mrs. Eichbaum, M. A. Sem., 10. Washington
— Wheeling 2d, 24 25.
Wisconsin. — Madison — Madison 1st, 58 45 ; Cottage
Grove, 1. Milwaukee — Immanuel, 81.
Woman’s Executive Committee of Home Missions,
748 90.
miscellaneous.
Barker Gummere, Trenton, N. J., 20 ; Gen-
eral Assembly, Minneapolis, Minn.,
308 65 ; Mrs. M. S. Lyman, Kearney,
Neb., 166 ; A. H. Porter, Niagara Falls,
N. Y., 100; Mrs. M. P. Kimball, Penns-
boro’, W. Va., 5; “C., N. Y.,” 5; A
tbank-off, 6; Mrs. H. M. Kirk, Sales-
ville, Mon., 9 55.
Total received in June, 1886 $3,117 29
Total received since April 1, 1886 12,016 23
Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen , No. 516 Market Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rev. Elliot E. Swift, D.D., Chairman. Rev. James Allison, D.D., Treasurer , P.O. Box 1024.
Rev. R. H. Allen, D.D., Corresponding Secretary , P.O. Box 258.
322
COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES.
[August,
BOARD OF AID FOR COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES.
REPORT OF THE ASSEMBLY’S STANDING COMMITTEE.
Many readers of the Record will not see the printed minutes of the
General Assembly. For the information of such, we here produce those
parts of the report of the Assembly’s Standing Committee on the Board
of Aid for Colleges and Academies which bear most directly upon the
importance of the Board’s work. The single name of Dr. Howard
Crosby, chairman of the committee, and his long identification with
the work of higher Christian education, would have given great weight
to whatever he might say on the subject ; but the following expressions
have the further backing of his able committee and of the unanimous
vote of the Assembly :
“ Between the Sunday-school and the theological seminary there is a
very broad gap in the educational work of our Church, which the Board
of Aid for Colleges and Academies is designed to supply by its efficient
enginery; and the object sought in filling this gap is not only to pre-
pare material for the theological seminary and thus increase the number
of our ministers, but also and more generally to secure the religious in-
struction of all our youth, whatever may be the expected vocation of their
manhood. Many leave the teachings of the Sunday-school to be ex-
posed to the irreligious influences of secular academies and colleges,
where the seeds of error are sown effectively by worldly-minded and
materialistic instructors, through whom the young raised in Presbyte-
rian families swell the ranks of indifferentism and infidelity. The
Church has but lately been awakened to a sense of this appalling
danger, and the organization of this Board of the General Assembly is
the result. Assuredly no department of the Church’s work appeals
more imperatively to the godly conscience and wisdom of the Church at
large than this. The future of the Church and of our country is inti-
mately connected with the action of the Church in response to this
Board’s appeal. Are the coming generations who shall guide the des-
tinies of our vast empire to be the exponents of irreligion and false
philosophy, from which only moral ruin can issue, or shall they be
grounded in divine truth, and become the promoters of a Christian
civilization ? This is the question propounded to the churches by this
1886.]
COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES.
323
Board for their immediate and practical solution. A wise and liberal
provision now made will open living fountains of pure education in all
parts of our growing states and territories, and meet, if not forestall,
the activity of the emissaries of the evil one, who are ever found in the
forefront of our advancing population. Such a provision will be the
most powerful adjunct and support of any form of our home mission
work, and will render connected and permanent what might otherwise
prove but sporadic and temporary efforts at evangelization. . . .
“ As the work is novel, and therefore needs large sums to meet the
foundation-laying over a large area of country, special efforts should be
made to secure large donations by testamentary bequests from such
friends to the cause as may not be able to spare lafge sums in their life-
time. The receipts of the Board for the first year were $14,912, for the
second year, $40,049 and for the third year, $45,521. In the first year
only 480 churches contributed to the funds of the Board, in the second
year, 1330, and in the third year, 1529, out of our total of 6000 churches.
These figures show that the Church has not yet appreciated the vast im-
portance of the work, and induce us to believe that if all the congrega-
tions in the land would respond to the call, the Board’s receipts would
readily reach $150,000 a year. It is to be hoped that the members of
this Assembly will return to their presbyteries with the charge upon
their hearts and consciences to see that every church fulfills its duty in
this regard. . . .
“ Your committee, in view of the importance of this Board to the
Church, and of the fact that it is still young and therefore in some re-
spects an unknown Board, recommend to the Assembly the following
resolutions :
“ 1. That a special emphasis should be laid by pastors on the claims
of this Board upon their people, and the grounds of its importance
should be carefully explained, so that the whole heart of a well-informed
Church may respond to its appeal.
“ 2. That the work of multiplying Christian colleges and academies
in our great western states and territories should keep pace with the
remarkable increase of the population.
“ 3. That the wealthy members of our churches should regard the
advancement of such institutions as among the worthiest objects of their
benevolence, thus laying the foundations of a Christian future for our
nation when it shall be the most populous nation on the earth.
“ 4. That loyalty to the Presbyterian Church demands that each con-
gregation, according to its ability, contribute to the treasury of this
Board and so promote the wide interests of the Church in our land.
“ All of which is respectfully submitted.
“Howard Crosby, Chairman .”
324
COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES .
[August.
And another good name stands out clearly in approval of this work.
This year the Presbyterian Review's annual notice of the General As-
sembly and its proceedings has the following for one of its closing sen-
tences :
“ The new Board for Academies and Colleges is taking a firmer hold
on the Church every year, and by the great work it is doing is rapidly
manifesting the wisdom of the Assembly that created it.
“ F. L. Patton.”
Now will not good. men and women who have means think it wise to
advise with us, at least concerning those spots to which we could most
usefully distribute at once ten, twenty or thirty thousand dollars ?
REMOVAL
of the Board’s room has been made from 137 Wabash Ave. to room
22, McCormick Block, corner of Dearborn and Randolph Sts., Chicago.
RECEIPTS OF THE BOARD OF AID IN JUNE, 1886.
Colorado. — Boulder — Valmont, 25
Illinois. — Peoria — Deer Creek, 5. Springfield —
Pisgah, 1 90; Unity, 75 cts. 7 65
Indiana. — Crawfordsville — Bethany, 7 55; Lafay-
ette 2d, 29 78. Muncie — Peru, 11 10. White Water
— College Corner, 2 ; Greensburgh, 18 27 ; Knights-
town, 3 ; Liberty, 4 ; Rising Sun, 1. 76 70
Iowa. — Iowa City — Sugar Creek, 2; WiltOD, 4.
Waterloo— Janesville, 3. 9 00
Kansas. — Solomon — Belleville, 1 ; Mankato, 1 55.
2 56
Michigan. — Detroit — Detroit Memorial, 7 60
Minnesota. — Red River — Angus, 2; Minneapolis
Bethlehem, 1 71. 3 71
Missouri. — St. Louis — Carondelet, 5 00
Nebraska. — Hastings— Edgar, 5; Minden, 1 50.
Kearney — Kearney, 10 71. 17 21
New Jersey. — Morris and Orange— Madison, 4 65.
Newark — Newark 2d, 13 42. 18 07
New York. — Cayuga — Auburn Central, 16 40;
Genoa 1st, 6. Champlain — Peru, 2. New York —
Eighty-fourth St., 15 97. Syracuse — Skaneateles, 12.
Troy — Lansingburgh 1st, 10; Troy Second St., 80 07;
Waterford, 7 09. Westchester — Irvington, 25 31 ;
West Farms, 2; Yonkers Day Spring, 20. 196 84
Ohio. — Bellefontaine — Bellefontaine, 1 73. Cincin-
nati— Westminster, 20. Cleveland — Rome, 60 cts.
Huron — Tiffin, 3 48. Portsmouth — Hanging Rock, 5.
Wooster — Berlin, 1 ; Mt. Eaton, 1. 32 81
Pacific. — San Jos4 — Los Gatos, 10 10
Pennsylvania. — Allegheny — Glenshaw, 2. Chester
— Fagg’s Manor, 16 25; New London, 8. Erie — War-
ren, 10; Westminster, 3. Lackawanna— Ashley, 2.
Northumberland — Williamsport 2d sab-sch., 6 85.
Philadelphia — Philadelphia South Western, 4 80.
Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh 2d, 66 16 ; East Liberty, 48 ;
Shady Side, 29 30. 196 36
Tennessee. — Kingston — Grassy Cove, 1 00
LEGACY.
Rev. Robert D. Morris, iate of Newton,
Bucks Co., Pa 43 10
PERSONAL donations.
Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife, Springfield,
111., 129; C., N. Y., 1 2 29
Total receipts of the Board, June, 1886 $630 24
Total receipts since May 1, 1886 $1,953 63
CHARLES M. CHARNLEY, Treasurer,
241 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.
ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD
To Jult 1, 1886.
PASTORAL RELATIONS DISSOLVED.
Rev. Edwin H. Dickinson and the church of
Knoxboro’, N. Y., by the Presbytery of Utica,
June 3, 1886.
Rev. J. Stuart Dickson and the church of Dayton,
N. J., by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, June
14. 1886.
Rev. J. Frederick Dripps, D.D., and Clinton
Street Immanuel Churcii, Philadelphia, by the
Presbytery of Philadelphia, June 30, 1886.
Rev. A. J. Duff and the church of Knoxville,
Pa., by the Presbytery of Pittsburgh, June 8, 1886.
Rev. John O. Gordon and the Fourth Church of
Pittsburgh, Pa., by the Presbytery of Pittsburgh,
June 8, 1886.
Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge, D.D., and the Third
Church of Chicago, Ills., by the Presbytery of Chi-
cago, June 14, 1886.
Rev. Wm. H. Logan and the churches of Millers-
town and Newport, Pa., by the Presbytery of Car-
lisle, June 8, 1886.
Rev. M. L. Ross and the Church of the Evangel,
Philadelphia, Pa., by the Presbytery of Philadel-
phia, June 7, 1886.
CALLS ACCEPTED.
Rev. W. L. Boyd to the church at Aubnrn. Neb.
Rev. Alex. M. Darley to the church of Seward,
Neb.
Rev. E. C. Jacka to the church of Garnett, Kan-
sas.
Rev. J. G. Rankin to the church of Prairie City,
Ills.
Rev. Henry Rice to the Second Church of Oak-
land, Cal.
Rev. Charles Thayer to the church at Delhi,
Minn.
ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS.
Rev. E. Craven over the church of Birmingham,
Pa., by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, June 8, 1886.
Rev. F. Porter Dalrymple over the church at
Shawnee, Pa., by the Presbytery of Lehigh, June
1. 1886.
Rev. J. Stuart Dickson over the Woodland
Church, Philadelphia, Pa., by the Presbytery of
Philadelphia, June 29, 1886.
Rev. Edward K. Donaldson over the First Church
of Amwell, N. J.,by the Presbytery of New Bruns-
wick, May 19, 1886.
Rev. Edward F. Egglestone over the Second
Church of Oxford, Pa., by the Presbytery of Ches-
ter, June 11, 1886.
Wm. P. Finney ordained and installed over the
churches at Cream Ridge and New Egypt, by the
Presbytery of Monmouth, June 10, 1886.
Henricus A. Van Griethuysen ordained and in-
stalled over the Lena Church at Mauston, Wis., by
the Presbytery of La Crosse, Jupe 8, 1886.
Rev. Wm. R. Henderson over the North Church
of Omaha, Neb., May 9, 1886.
H. R. Johnson ordained and installed over the
church of Natrona. Pa., by the Presbytery of Alle-
gheny, June 24, 1886.
Rev. George O. Phelps over Bethany Church,
Utica, N. Y., by the Presbytery ol' Utica, June 15,
1886.
Rev. Wm. N. Richie over the Fourth Church,
Philadelphia, Pa., by the Presbytery of Philadel-
phia, June 22, 1886.
Rev. Thomas A. Sanson over the First Church
of Argyle, N. Y., by the Presbytery of Troy, June
8, 1886.
Rev. W. W. Tait over the church of Mount Car-
mel, Ills., by the Presbytery of Cairo, June 6, 1886.
James M. Wilson ordained and installed over the
Castellar Street Church. Omaha, Neb., by the Pres-
bytery of Omaha, June 3, 1886.
POST-OFFICE ADDRESSES CHANGED.
Rev. A. W. Allen from Sacket s Harbor to Cam-
den, N. Y.
Rev. W. L. Boyd from Fairfield to Auburn, Neb.
Rev. Wm. W. Campbell from Aberdeen to Abing-
don, Harford Co., Md.
Rev. Anson G. Chester from 273 Seventh Street to
168 Glenwood Avenue, Buffalo. N. Y.
Rev. Arthur B. Cort from St. George to Silver
Reef, Utah.
Rev. J. J. Cowles from Fair Haven to Adams,
Jefferson Co., N. Y.
Rev. J. M. Craig from Manitowoc, Wis., to Boston,
Mass.
Rev. Alex. M. Darley from Storm Lake, Iowa, to
Seward. Neb.
Rev. D. Deruelle from Manchester, N. H.,to Beth-
lehem, Pa.
Rev. J. S. Dickson from Dayton, N. J., to 3912
Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. J. Frederick Dripps, D.D., from 905 Pine
Street to 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Rev. J. C. Ely from Dallas, Texas, to Washing-
ton, Pa.
Rev. Wm. T. Eva, D.D., from 1828 Frank ford
Avenue to 240 Franklin Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. Wm. P. Finney from Princeton to New
Egypt, N. J.
Rev. Heber Gill from Hopkinton, Iowa, to Earl-
ville. Ills.
Rev. J. A. Greene from Allegheny, N. Y., to Mil-
ler, Hand Co., Dakota.
Rev. George Hale, D.D., from Frankford, Phila-
delphia, Pa., to Pennington, N. J.
Rev. John P. Hale from Fond du Lac, Wis., to
4743 Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, Ills.
Rev. C. O. Hanmer from Dryden to Geneva,
Cayuga Co., N. Y.
Rev. J. A. Hanna from La Camas to Corvallis,
Oregon.
Rev. Wm. R. Henderson from Bellevue to S. W.
cor. of 25th and Seward Streets, Omaha. Neb.
Rev. E. C. Jacka from El Cajon, Cal., to Garnett,
Kansas.
Rev. Orr Lawson, D.D., from Pottsville, Pa., to
Aberdeen, Dakota.
Rev. Joseph R. Mann from New York city to
Mead’s Mountain Home, Woodstock, Ulster Co.,
N. Y.
Rev. Jonah Morse -from Woodhull to Kewanee,
Ills.
Rev. T. A. Nelson to 48 Eighth Avenue, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
= Rev. J. G. Rankin from Macomb to Prairie City,
Ills.
Rev. Thomas G. Pearce from Belleville, Wis., to
I Garrison, Benton Co., Iowa.
Rev. J. N. Rankin from Gardner to Brainerd,
t Kansas.
Rev. Henry H. Rice from Sacramento to 927
Union Street. Oakland, Cal.
Rev. Levi Risher from Blairsville to Sewickley,
Allegheny Co., Pa.
Rev. James M. Smith from West Berkeley to
Pleasanton, Clarinda Co., Cal.
Rev. W. C. Stall from Frazer, Pa., to Madonna,
Harford Co., Md.
Rev. Samuel B. Taggart from Upper Alton, Ills,
to Uhricksville, Ohio.
Rev. Charles Thayer from Pipestone to Delhi
Redwood Co., Minn.
Rev. H. A. Van Griethuysen to Mauston. Wis.
Rev. W. Ef Voss from Rockport, Mo., to Ellen-
dale, Dakota.
Rev. Wm. W. Whipple from La Grange, Mo., to
Norton, Kansas.
Rev. A. W. Williams to Coulter House, German-
town, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. J. B. Woodward from East Stroudsburgh to
Prompton, Wayne Co., Pa.
DEATHS.
Rev. James M. Roberts, of the Presbytery of
Los Angeles, at Anaheim, Cal., May 7, 1886, in his
51st year.
Rev. Henry Shedd. D.D., of the Presbytery of
Marion, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, June 17, 1886, in his
84th year.
Rev. Anson Yale Tuttle, of the Presbytery of
Cleveland, at Edinburgh, Ohio, May 26, 1886, in his
S4th year.
Ministers are respectfully requested to furnish their changes of address directly to The Monthly Record. It is sent to all
ministers of the Presbyterian Church, and it is important that their correct addresses should always be in the office.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
Our thirtieth academical year closed on Tuesday, June 1. Besides the
33 Seniors, 12 were graduated from the English course. The scene and
the occasion were to every thoughtful person present impressive and
intensely suggestive.
Joshua B. Given, a full-blood Kioway and Comanche Indian, was
among the graduates. His address showed talent and character of a
high order. He will return next year for the study of theology.
P. Q. Soh and E. Kepliie, two young Coreans, were publicly intro-
duced, and committed to the charge of the Faculty. Their support,
while students, is provided through Rev. Dr. Poor, Secretary Presby-
terian Board of Education.
Interesting letters have been received at the University from Rev. T.
Roberts, a native African ; for twelve years a student with us, now a
missionary in his native land. One of these letters was sent to a brother
minister in Cortland, N. Y., who thus acknowledges it : —
“ It is remarkable ! it is wonderful ! It is as good a composition as
Theodore Cuvier can produce. There is in it no upreaching/ no sopho-
moric strain, no poverty of speech, no vulgarism. It is a letter straight-
forward, well-expressed, affectionate and patriotic. If Lincoln can take
heathen African boys and make of them such men in twelve years, then
honored and blest be Lincoln University. How strange that the Presby-
terian Church does not endow that institution.”
All who desire to aid may address the Financial Secretary,
Rev. EDWARD WEBB,
Oxford, Pa.
Rev. J. Chester is our agent in the Western States.
BEQUESTS.
In the preparation of Wills, when it is desired to make Bequests to the General Assembly, or any of its
Boards or Permanent Committees, care should be taken to insert the Corporate Name, as known and recog-
nized in the Courts of Law. Bequests for the
General Assembly should be made to “The Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of America.”
Board of Home Missions, — to “The Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America, incorporated April 19th, 1872, by Act of the Legislature of the State of New York.”
Board of Foreign Missions, — to “The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church iu the
United States of America.”
Board of Church Erection, — to “The Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
Board of Publication,--\o “The Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication.”
Board of Education, — to “The Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States
of America.”
Board of Belief, — to “The Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and
Orphans of Deceased Ministers.”
Board on Freedmen , — to “The Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America.”
Board of Aid for Colleges, — to “The Presbyterian Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies.”
S’ustenfation is not incorporated. Bequests for its treasury should be made to “The Board of Home
Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, incorporated April 19tb, 1872, by Act
of the Legislature of the State of New York, for Sustentation.”
The Permanent Committee on Temperance is not incorporated. Bequests for it should be made
to “ The Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, for
the Permanent Committee on Temperance.”
JT. B. — If Real Estate be giveu by will, let it be carefully described.
Published monthly, at 50 cents per year, by the Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 1334 Chestnut Str<
Philadelphia, Pa. No. 8. August, 1886. Entered at the Post-office at Philadelphia, Pa., as second-class matter.
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